#curiosity

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ↗

— Malcolm X

#could #curiosity #good #i #just

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#delightful #driven #game #insatiable #our

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#curiosity #debts #duty #family #father

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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

— James Harvey Robinson

#fail #idle #indispensable #may #only

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#curiosity #intellectual #intellectual curiosity #keep #life

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. ↗

— Aaron Klug

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My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever. ↗

— Auguste Lumiere

#camera #commercial #curiosity #exploited #invention

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#curiosity #desire #life #love #passion

Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed." I grinned. "Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman. ↗

— Susan Dennard

#humor #snark #humor