#curiosity

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. ↗

— Aaron Klug

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We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attraction #conversation #curiosity #fascination #females

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds. ↗

— William Shatner

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever. ↗

— Auguste Lumiere

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With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity. ↗

— Joe Murray

#curiosity #dead #ever #first #first time

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know. ↗

— Graham Swift

#love

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this span of life by him who interests his heart in everything. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#inspirational #inspirational

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#america #attention #block #curiosity #english