A Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Learning Curiosity Poking Prying Purpose Research

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Zora Neale Hurston
American - Dramatist
January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960

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

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Philo

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

Serge Haroche

'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one's memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.

Anthony Doerr

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

Simon Sinek

Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be concerned about others? Know and examine your own self.

Tikhon of Zadonsk

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In my research, I learned that the Boxers' kung fu wasn't all that formalized. The vast majority of them didn't belong to some age-old martial arts tradition. They were basically poor, starving teenagers doing the best they could to figure out how to fight, relying more on their mystical beliefs than formal training.

Gene Luen Yang

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Willis R. Whitney

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

David Attenborough

I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.

Ben Schott

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

George Grosz

Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted.