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Kids are my favorites … their spirit and curiosity has not yet been dulled by schools.

— Julius Sumner Miller

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What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

What Science Teaching Needs, Junior college journal, volume 38 (1967)

"It is important that we subscribe to the requirements of nature."

Why Is It So? (1964)

Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it — you know, get excited about it — and second, that you have fun with it.

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

The Days of My Life : An Autobiography (1989)

My view is this: We teach nothing.

What Science Teaching Needs, Junior college journal, volume 38 (1967)

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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Bryan Magee Confessions of a Philosopher (1997)

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Samuel Johnson The Rambler (1750)

My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect—a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.

Jack Vance The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

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