#curious

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#after #curious #going #keyhole #know

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. ↗

— George Combe

#curious #facts #goodness #illustration #mere

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#body #climatic #curiously #differ #enough

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher. ↗

— James Tobin

#anyone #casually #curious #father #gentle

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#believed #could #curious #handling #how

There are things that make no sense, that seem unreal, that can’t be grasped, or understood, or explained, that maybe don’t even exist… And still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives. Isn’t it strange? ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#fantasy #inspiring #make-believe #pretend #richelle

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music. ↗

— Paula Cole

#curious #express #express yourself #freedom #going

I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair. ↗

— James Patterson

#exciting #exquisite #fang #fit #i

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#beliefs #curious #example #far #for example

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#british #british government #cost #country #curiously