Sylvia Earle Quotes

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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

I try to be led by my curiosity.

It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.