Accounts Quote by James Hutton Download Open image “In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.” — James Hutton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accounts Begets Curiosity Desire Indolence Matter Science
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties. He who easily comprehends all that is before him, and soon exhausts any single subject, is always eager for new inquiries; and in proportion as the intellectual eye takes in a wider prospect, it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ... — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those… — James Hutton Copy Share
A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, in the constitution of this earth, or for the permanency of the land on which we dwell, and when he finds that there are means wisely provided for the renovation of… — James Hutton Copy Share
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion… — James Hutton Copy Share
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share
God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any easier on account of this, indeed it may be harder, even more urgent, but now you are centered, focused, clear. So this is where I am supposed to be. I always thought I was supposed to… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
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