Echoes in a Hollow Space

Random quote of the day:

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

—Eleanor Roosevelt, preface, Autobiography

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

 

Random quote of the day: 

 

“If you are really enquiring you cannot start with a conclusion, and all ideologies are a conclusion.”

—J. Krishnamurti, “How To Live In This World,” The Urgency of Change

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

 

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

—Marie Curie to a reporter, quoted in Living Adventures in Science by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas

(Funny story: As she was entering a vacation home in the south of France, the reporter mistook her for a housemaid and offered her money to dish the dirt on the Curies. Madame Curie apparently dressed quite plainly.)

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“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.”

—Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks On the Road

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

 

“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”

—Steven Wright

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:


"I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious."

—Albert Einstein, to Carl Seelig, his biographer







( Illustrated version. )




Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Random quote of the day:



"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."

—Albert Einstein, quoted in "Holy Curiosity," Time, March 21, 1949, from his "upcoming" biography


( Illustrated awwww... )


You may have seen a widely quoted version of this attributed to Einstein which goes something like this: "It is a miracle that curiosity survives a formal education." As far as I can tell, this is someone's "improved" version. It makes a better sound bite, I guess, but there's more poetry in Einstein's own verison.