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Curiosity Quote by Graham Swift

“People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830” quote by Graham Swift — Download Open image

“People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830”

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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

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“Metal makes everything magical. Just ask a unicorn.”

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“So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.”

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“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I am not…

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By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.…

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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

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