"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."

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Source : Zora Neale Hurston, Cheryl A. Wall (1997). “Sweat”, p.43, Rutgers University Press

Zora Neale Hurston

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“I find that I have more allies on the left than on the right, and that is because the left is, by and large, filled with people who are challenging the present paradigm and power structure. Iâ€™m interested in totally transforming the structure that exists now, because it is not sustainable.”
“When I was a kid I used to hate getting picked for team sports. It would be the fit and sporty guys over there. And me and the fat kids over here. Those kids were fat! One girl had to be cut out a hula hoop.”
“I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.”
“If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.”
“Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.”

Source : "Physics and Whitehead: quantum, process, and experience". Book editing by Timothy E. Eastman and Hank Keeton, 2012.
“Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account." -Sinead Starling”
“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”
“I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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