"What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry."
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"Curiosity is its own reason."
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"Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had."
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"Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures."
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"Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety."
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"Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so."
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"The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent."
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"I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught."
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"A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline."
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"What is fright by night is curiosity by day."
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"And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric."
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"In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity."
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"Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so."
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"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
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"The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency."
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"Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites."
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"Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement."
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"The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness."
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"Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications."
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"So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there."
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