Curiosity & Wonder Quotes

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

Imagination needs to be fed.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.