Curiosity/brain

Famous quotes containing the words curiosity and/or brain:

“Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilisation.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)

“When the situation is, what we would wish, nothing is so ill- timed as to hint at the circumstances which make it so: you thank Fortune ... you had reason—the heart knew it, and was satisfied; and who but an English philosopher would have sent notices of it to the brain to reverse the judgment?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)