“The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a kind of sacred user-friendly device.”— Diane Ackerman
“To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”— Chinua Achebe
“Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.”— Buzz Aldrin
“There's a meta-question: why are we interested in the questions that we're interested in?”— Stephen Wolfram
“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”— Max Planck
“An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.”— David Attenborough
“For me, the romance of science is not in the certainty of the answer, but in the burning, restless curiosity that drives the question.”— Ann Druyan
“The university's danger is not that it doesn't have the answers, but that it doesn't ask the right questions.”— Derek Bok
“What makes a newspaperman a good newspaperman is talent and curiosity and a certain amount of irreverence.”— Hal Boyle