Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143
“Research is formalized curiosity.”
It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143.
He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.
VIII, 52
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
“He who would know the secret of both worlds,
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.”
"Intoxicated by the Wine of Love" as translated by Margaret Smith from "The Jawhar Al-Dhat"
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 17.
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
"Alien Dreamtime" a multimedia event recorded live. (27 February 1993)
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary (1988)
