Tag: curiosity
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The Privilege Of Curiosity
The differences between science and religion are often argued. Each attempts to explain, observe, and reveal insight about our reality and universe. The solutions posed are as varied as the people that propose them but beneath them both is a desire to seek a broader understanding about our existence. Investigation is not a uniquely human…
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The Sin Of Knowledge and The Sin Of Ignorance
Man, is a funny creature. If you point at something and tell anyone “DON’T TOUCH IT!” you might as well just command him to touch it because as the ancient roman poet Ovid states Nitimur in vetitum translated “We strive after the forbidden”. It seems that we have been this way since the beginning of our history,…
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Curiosity: Exploration, Novelty, And Risk
In a famous quote Edmund Burke states ” The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the mind, is curiosity.” This is profound for a couple reasons; one, it was written in 18th Century Dublin but curiosity is not something we often refer to as an emotion. Secondly it is curious that curiosity would…