Curiosity/brain

Famous quotes containing the words curiosity and/or brain:

“All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,—is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In the beginning was the secret brain.
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)