Curiosity Quote by Gothelf, Jeff

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am…

— Alexander Humboldt

“Searching for an unknown is research.”

— The Searcher

Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the…

— Lauren Groff

“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.”

— John Brockman

“Because I see myself, first and foremost, as a man pursuing answers to fundamental questions. Now, if the people around me”—he gestures at his…

— Blake Crouch

“Every scholar knew that one of the greatest dangers in research was the desire to find a specific answer.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and…

— Charles Dickens

“Reading in an essay by a white folklorist that Hurston was buried in an unmarked grave, Walker decided that such a fate was an…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Curiosity is a youthful beauty. Connected to joy and slipping around old beliefs, it urges us to investigate rather than assume.”

— Jeanne McElvaney

“To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand,…

— Anonymous