curiosity
“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
“People say to me, 'Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?' No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world.”
“Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.”
“Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.”
“A humanist has four leading characteristics—curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”
“The pleasure of finding things out.”
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment, and wonder at that which is different from oneself.”
“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
“ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments.”
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”