The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. - T. H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
I think nature's imagination is so much greater than Man's. She's never going to let us relax. - Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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Ways of saying the same thing. A few centuries apart.
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Curiosity killed the cat as we‘ve been told of yore,
But curiosity drove Columbus to another shore,
Medicine and picture books, alcohol and fire,
Electricity and bicycles and the tall church spire,
Bright plastic toys and radio and flying in the sky,
Are only there because of how and what and if and why?
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