"Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure."
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"The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation."
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"Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle."
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"If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking."
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"Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity."
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"One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in."
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"I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest."
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"Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity."
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"Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge."
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"I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life."
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"To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous."
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"Curiosity must be kept alive."
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"Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off."
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"Curiosity is the thirst of the soul."
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"We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true"."
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"My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once."
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"What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion."
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"We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game."
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"The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem."
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"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity."
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