Natural Curiosity Quotes:

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

- Anatole France

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Teacher, Math Education, Spring Awakening

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

- Stanislaw Lem

topic: Curiosity, Potatoes, Natural, Natural Curiosity

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

- Steven Chu

topic: Curiosity, Branches, Way, Natural Curiosity

A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead.

- Bill Watterson

source: "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

topic: Fun, Thinking, New Experiences, Inquisitive, Natural Curiosity

Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

- Lilian Katz

source: Source: www.scholastic.com

topic: Children, Opportunity, Curiosity, Natural Curiosity

As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Noam Chomsky (1988). “Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures”, p.135, MIT Press

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Curiosity, Natural Curiosity

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

- Sally Ride

topic: Fun, Curiosity, Natural, Posing, Natural Curiosity

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

- Francis Bacon

source: Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Knowledge, Men, Curiosity, Inquisitive, Natural Curiosity

I have a natural curiosity for people.

- Nicholas Haslam

topic: People, Curiosity, Natural, Natural Curiosity

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

- Kathleen Norris

source: Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Curiosity, Conspiracy, Natural, Conspiracy Theory, Natural Curiosity

If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.

- Paul Lockhart

source: "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

topic: Crush, Jobs, Children, Being Done, Natural Curiosity

In order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first century and beyond, we must nurture rather than repress children's natural curiosity. We must encourage them to be curious, instead of fearful, toward other cultures.

- Paul K. Chappell

topic: Children, Order, Other Cultures, Natural Curiosity

But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

- Francis Bacon

source: Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.81

topic: Knowledge, Science, Men, Natural Curiosity

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.39, Great West Books

topic: People, Curiosity, Comfort, Natural Curiosity

I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back together again, and why they work that way. The natural world is all around us.

- Dominic Monaghan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Together Again, Curiosity, Trying, Back Together Again, Natural Curiosity