Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Scientists
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
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