"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."

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"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."

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"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."

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"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."

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"What are your interests?""Your son in my room," I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy."

David Levithan, American Author

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"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."

"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."

"Do not just accept anything without questioning."

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."

"When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your eyes."

"What are your interests?""Your son in my room," I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy."

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."

"That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out."

"When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart."

"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."

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"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."

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