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Good sociologists have always had an insatiable curiosity about even the trivialities of human behaviour, and if this curiosity leads a sociologist to devote many years to the painstaking exploration of some small corner of the social world that may appear quite trivial to others, so be it: Why do more teenagers pick their noses in rural Minnesota than in rural Iowa? What are the patterns of church socials over a twenty-year period in small-town Saskatchewan? What is the correlation between religious affiliation and accident-proneness among elderly Hungarians? — Peter Berger

Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose. — Todd William Mind Games: 25...

She {Mme des Laumes} belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does. — Marcel Proust Swann's Way

Nothing is so difficult that it cannot be discovered by seeking. — Kim Harrison White Witch,...

"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!" — Jules Verne The Mysterious...

Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity. - ALBERT EINSTEIN — Robert Greene Mastery

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

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No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

I tried to explain again. 'Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favourite song that you knew off by...

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...

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