Quotes of: Curious Keyword

Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have a map it will still be there because a map is a ...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness int...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Viagra isn't the only drug being prescribed off-label for women with arousal problems. Los Angeles urologist Jennifer Berman told me some doctors are prescribing low doses of Ritalin. Drugs like Ritalin improve a person's focus, so it stands to reaso...

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an accessory role. We are fortunate that this is so, for we would otherwise have been faced with Celine Dion singin...

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder...

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

There, just beyond his open palm, was our mother’s face. I wasn’t expecting it. We hadn’t requested a viewing, and the memorial service was closed-coffin. We got it anyway. They’d shampooed and waved her hair and made up her face. They’d do...

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a ...

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Patricia Cornwell

Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

Simon Callow

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Abraham Maslow

I'm tolerant of believers, but I'm agnostic. I'm curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained.

Cecile de France

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

Beth Anderson

Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

Dean Ornish

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Baltasar Gracian

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

Diane Sawyer

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

V. S. Pritchett

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.

James Collins

We are always curious about miracles even though our life is a miracle.

Debasish Mridha