“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
This is stated to be a declaration she often made to reporters, in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 222
Variant: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
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