“No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.”
Source: Race and Democratic Society (1945), Chapter 7.
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“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
No. 103 (12 March 1751)
Variant: Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Source: The Rambler (1750–1752)

Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein's God (1997), p. 98
Source: 1960s, Economics As A Moral Science, 1969, p. 2 cited in: John B. Davis (2011) Kenneth Boulding as a Moral Scientist http://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=econ_workingpapers Working paper
Source: Living Systems: Basic Concepts (1969), p. 53; About conceptual or abstracted spaces

Source: Are you being brainwashed?: Propaganda in science textbooks (2007), p. 20