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The term curiosity can also denote the behavior, characteristic, or emotion of being curious, in regard to the desire to gain knowledge or information. Curiosity as a behavior and emotion is the driving force behind human development, such as progress in science, language, and industry. [5]
In his research work with the Greater Good Science Center in Berkeley, Calif., Scott Shigeoka, a curiosity expert and author of the new book “Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and ...
Quilp plots with Sampson Brass, illustration by 'Phiz' for The Old Curiosity Shop (1840). Daniel Quilp lives in Tower Hill on the north side of the River Thames; he also has a wharf on the south side of the river from where he conducts his business as a ship breaker and usurer.
In 1738, the Scottish philosopher David Hume differentiated intellectual curiosity from a more primitive form of curiosity: . The same theory, that accounts for the love of truth in mathematics and algebra, may be extended to morals, politics, natural philosophy, and other studies, where we consider not the other abstract relations of ideas, but their real connexions and existence.
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Thus, most of Berlyne's work focused on the effects of and reactions to curiosity and arousal, rather than focus on the ideas as states of being. His work focused on "why organisms display curiosity and explore their environment, why they seek knowledge and information". [ 1 ]
“Well, my religion, for the lack of a better word, is one of curiosity, where we want to expand the scope and scale of consciousness on Earth and beyond Earth,” he said.
The absence of good (Latin: privatio boni), also known as the privation theory of evil, [1] is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking of it as an entity is misleading. Instead, evil is rather the absence, or lack ("privation"), of good.