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“Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.”
― Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
― Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.”
― The Jungle Books
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.”
― The Jungle Books
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.”
― Life After Death
― Life After Death
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