Margaret Mead Quotes

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

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.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

I've come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, 'What if?'

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.

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

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity.

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.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we're excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

We're all curious about a lot of things.

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.