curious sayings
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
curiosity
curiosity sayings
The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge. Apocrypha All my life I’ve been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find …
Curiosity sayings
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Edmund Burke It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. Albert Einstein Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire Curiosity …
curiosity sayings
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder Ralph W. Sockman There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions …
curiosity sayings
curiosity killed the cat and satisfaction brought it back (traditional) Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ~Arnold Edinborough I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and …
bowerbirds and Linnaeus
I have been working on a possible exhibition opportunity for a show about the 300th anniversary of Linnaeus. Researching Linnaeus I came across some references to his classing of minerals, fossils and crystals. In this case Linnaeus’s system was never adopted. I am thinking about combining it with the bowerbird’s classification of stones in …