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One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. - Joseph Jacobs

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. - Abraham Cowley

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future. - Jack Williamson

Whether it's a poem I'm working on or a picture I've snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it. - Gerard Malanga

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing. - Fernando Botero

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. - James Mirrlees

I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond. - Sergey Volkov

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries. - Gordon Gee

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. - David Hare

'Carnival Row' is us looking at the stranger; 'The Curiosity' is the stranger looking at us. - Travis Beacham

I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written. - Gayle Lynds

Yet everybody's experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity. - Tom Burke

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business. - Kim Cattrall

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect. - Charles Lyell

My observance as a practicing Muslim in the NBA is somewhat uncommon. Since joining the league in 2011, my dedication to my faith has aroused the curiosity of teammates, coaches, trainers and fans. - Enes Kanter

My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity. - Hilary Mason

The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it. - Patrick O'Brian

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity. - Sam Wyly

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister. - Robert B. Laughlin

I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them. - Michael Rapaport

Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it's up the individual and the force of their personality to give life to them. - Brian Grazer

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. - Vincent Canby

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity. - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity. - Caroline Kennedy

When I was about 9 years old, I became very interested in the human body and diseases. In general, I was just curious about the world around me. I think that any sort of curiosity as a child is a good beginning to a career in science because science, at least to me, is a continuous exploration of the unknown. - Eva Vertes

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. - Fawn M. Brodie

Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think that's all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it. - Joshua Michael Stern

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life. - Marianne Wiggins

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. - Alistair Cooke

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. - Alistair Cooke

What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity. - Hamdi Ulukaya

Critical thinking and curiosity are the key to creativity. - Amala Akkineni

I have a natural curiosity about the world, and I just love to talk. - Danielle Campbell

I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world. - Nicholas D'Agosto

I'm proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the main motivation for studying physics from a personal standpoint. - Eugene Parker

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older. - Lee Radziwill

For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness. - Klaus Schwab

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

As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised. - R. J. Cutler

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do. - Robert Morgan

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. - George Tenet

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness. - Carl Hart

I had been one of the earliest social media adopters, driven by a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm for the way in which it levels borders and connects people who couldn't really have connected otherwise. - Kelly Evans

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability. - Harvey Mackay

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race. - Buzz Aldrin

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense. - John Barton

Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was where I became a man. - Bill Bradley

Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching. - John Hurt

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before. - Mary Ellen Mark

One of the things I've always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties. - Stacey D'Erasmo

To the young girl who fails to see opportunities around her: Awaken the intellectual curiosity within you. Go on, search for those opportunities and chase after them! Because when you are curious and in 'search mode,' you will meet a lot of people and learn, and when you find opportunities, you will be exhilarated rather than overwhelmed. - Clemantine Wamariya

If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because it's true. - Adena Friedman

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to. - Francois Englert

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart. - Kate Walsh

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music. - Elvis Costello

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character. - David Bergen

People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.' - Peter Graves

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown. - Ahmed Zewail

My mother has a lot of sisters. They had very, very interesting conversations. Because I was a quiet child, I would sit in the room and listen to these stories. I think I developed a curiosity about the life of other people from that, and an interest in looking at what was lying beneath the layer of what people present in public. - Ayobami Adebayo

I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?' - Wong Kar-wai

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale. - Jacky Ickx

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image. - Martin Bashir

I have an inate curiosity about people. - Martin Bashir

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity. - Mary Leakey

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. - Rupert Murdoch

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers. - May-Britt Moser

From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity - none of those were valued as much as my body, which preceded me into almost every room. - Amanda de Cadenet

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety. - Andrew Coyle Bradley

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. - James Harvey Robinson

The new normal is continuous learning, and we look for people who demonstrate lots of different interests and really demonstrate curiosity. - Julie Sweet

'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one's memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook. - Anthony Doerr

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.' - Anne Sweeney

Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity. - Damian Marley

I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don't know it all and that they're dying to learn. - Kevin Plank

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences. - Ian Hacking

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.' - Ian Hacking

'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime. - Manny Farber

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign. - Irvin D. Yalom

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

We're born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don't have a curiosity don't have it because it's gotten beaten out of them in some way. - Kip Thorne

Teenagers have a natural curiosity and are keen to clock up experiences. What they need to be wary of is that some experiences may erode their sense of self and lead to a fragmentation of morals. - Alexandra Adornetto

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. - Frans de Waal

If you sit down among hundreds of thousands of albatrosses in a field, pretty soon you'll be completely surrounded by them, as they come walking up toward us and nibble on our shoelaces and just look right at us out of curiosity. - Chris Jordan

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

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories. - Sarah Kay

I think that everybody should go out there and test their curiosity, find a haunted place. - Zak Bagans

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town. - H. G. Bissinger

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things. - Robert Wilson Lynd

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. - Daniel Boone

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. - Diane Sawyer

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown. - Hilary Duff

My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena. - Baruj Benacerraf

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. - Renee Fleming

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them. - Ken Robinson

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

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. - Eliezer Yudkowsky

Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked. - Neil Blumenthal

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play. - Darell Hammond

Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity. - Carrie Brownstein

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