Curiosity/brain

Famous quotes containing the words curiosity and/or brain:

“The Indian resists curiosity by a stony silence. The Negro offers a featherbed resistance. That is, we let the probe enter, but it never comes out. It gets smothered under a lot of laughter and pleasantries.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)