"I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life." (Jules Verne, "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea", 1870)
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." (James Stephens, "The Crock of Gold", 1912)
"The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it." (John Wyndham, "The Lost Machine", 1932)
"The very basis of human civilization was leisure [...] spare time in which to indulge curiosity and experiment." (Edmond Hamilton, "The Ephemerae", 1938)
"Earth hung in the after port behind and below him, a soft emerald crescent in its first thin quarter. A warm green sickle that was home, a hustling verdant young world impatient to push its way across black empty space and satisfy its lusty curiosity about its cosmic neighbors." (Roger Dee," Unwelcome Tenant", 1950)
"The mysteries of the universe and the questions that scientists strive to answer never come to an end. For that we should be grateful. A universe in which their were no mysteries for curious men to ponder would be a very dull universe indeed."(Isaac Asimov, "The Search for the Elements", 1962)
"Every intelligent creature was curious - and curiosity prompted it to act when something incomprehensible took place."(Stanislaw Lem, "The Hunt", 1968)
"If space people didn’t have curiosity, they probably wouldn’t be space people." (Stephen Tall, "The Bear with the Knot on His Tail", 1971)
"It surprises me how our culture can destroy curiosity in the most curious of all animals - human beings." (Paul Maclean)
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