If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?