Galileo's Feast -- A Critical Thinking Symposium

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Friday 17 August 2007

Curiosity

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
--Voltaire

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
--Ellen Parr


"Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not."
--Isaiah Berlin

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
--Samuel Johnson

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know about everything, except about that which is worth knowing."
--Oscar Wilde

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
--Albert Einstein

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
--Albert Einstein

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