One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
People die when curiosity goes.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
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