“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift wo...”

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious,and curiosity keeps leading us dow...”

“Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.”

“Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.”

“Curiosity is a lust of the mind.”

“But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.”

“The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once...”

“If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.”

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny......”

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”

“The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any...”

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”