Intellectual Curiosity Quotes - Page 2

• Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people’s lives are lost as a result of nonsense.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  People, Intellectual, Curiosity

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• When a new project comes along, I want to know that the experience is going to be challenging and exciting. Part of me is going to be drawn to doing something new and also the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Challenges, Intellectual, Curiosity

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Exercise, Genius, Vigorous

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Intellectual, Curiosity

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• If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

  G. H. Hardy

  Ambition, Pride, Science

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society.

  Timothy Gowers

  Ambition, Math, Curiosity

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• My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Adventure, Goal, Intellectual

  "The “world’s most wanted hacker,” Kevin Mitnick, has gone straight (interview)". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.

  Elayne Boosler

  School, Intellectual, Curiosity

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• Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Growing Up, Home, Important Values

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• The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

  Ronald Reagan

  California, Intellectual, Curiosity

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• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mother, Silly, Exercise

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• Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

  Joseph Conrad

  Philosophy, Issues, Interesting

  "African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations". Book by George Yancy, p. 35, 1998.

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• I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Men, Class

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

  Chesley Sullenberger

  Mother, Teacher, Reading

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• We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we're really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what we think they can teach the rest of us. We're always trying to attract people who are going to bring excitement and intellectual curiosity into our classrooms in our environment.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Thinking, Mba, Always Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility.

  Anthony Standen

  Humility, Science, Numbers

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

  Sam Wyly

  Hard Work, Intellectual, Curiosity

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• The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Civilization, Two

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• Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote an entire working life to one particular discipline.

  Robert W. Bly

  Moving, Discipline, Intellectual

  Robert W. Bly (2003). “Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Intellectual, Curiosity, Desire

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader of the Labour Party. I was disappointed - but not at all surprised - at the complete absence of intellectual curiosity on display. The second objective I had to try to capture for posterity the excitement and spirit of the first Corbyn campaign. Those moments when the impossible suddenly becomes possible are so powerful to those who experience them. I think it's politically valuable to relive such moments, to learn the lessons of what went right.

  Alex Nunns

  Powerful, Party, Book

  Source: salvage.zone

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• Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Intellectual, Curiosity, Thrill

  "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

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• The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Men, Understanding

  Oswald Chambers (1935). “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest; Selections for the Year”

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