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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, American Historian

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

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"He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed."

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"Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward."

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

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