"Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption, or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health." (Gary Zukav)
"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature." (Freya Stark)
"Learning is by nature curiosity, prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained." (Philo of Alexandria)
"Mathematics originates in the mind of an individual, as it doubtless originated historically in the collective life of mankind, with the recognition of certain recurrent abstract features in common experience, and the development of processes of counting, measuring, and calculating, by which order can be brought into the manipulations of these features. It originated in this manner, indeed; but already at a very early stage it begins to transcend the practical sphere and its character undergoes a corresponding change. Intellectual curiosity progressively takes charge, despite the fact that practical considerations may for long continue to be the main source of interest and may indeed never cease to stimulate the creation of new concepts and new methods. As mathematics breaks from its early dependence on practical utility, its ‘immediate’ significance is at the same time lost and the goal is to discover what it is that makes 'emancipated' mathematics valid. (Geoffrey T Kneebone)
"Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again - lots of them." (Hal Gregersen)
"Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life." (Linus Pauling)
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." (Albert Einstein)
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." (Anatole France)
"Thinkers aren’t limited by what they know because they can always increase what they know. Rather they’re limited by what puzzles them because there’s no way to become curious about something that doesn’t puzzle you." (Daniel Quinn)
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