John Connolly Quotes

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

It's human nature to wonder.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

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

I am generally fascinated by what are the big, challenging questions - that's behind my curiosity.

It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.