Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" "My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.
Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph
The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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.
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Approaching subject matter to photograph is like meeting a person and beginning a conversation. How does one know ahead of time where that will lead, what the subject matter will be, how intimate it will become, how long the potential relationship will last? Certainly, a sense of curiosity and a willingness to be patient to allow the subject matter to reveal itself are important elements in this process.
The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.
I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.
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.
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
You see, but you do not observe.
Conservationists have, I fear, adopted the pedagogical method of the prophets: we mutter darkly about impending doom if people don't mend their ways. The doom is impending, all right; no one can be an ecologist, even an amateur one, without seeing it. But do people mend their ways for fear of calamity? I doubt it. They are more likely to do it out of pure curiosity and interest.
Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
I'm really excited about the places I've gone and the places I'm going, internally and externally speaking, and working to bring different spectrums of curiosity to life.
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.