CURIOSITY AND WORK November 1, 2008
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In his memoir, Touch and Go, Studs Terkel wrote, “My curiosity keeps me going. My epitaph is all set: ‘Curiosity did not kill this cat.’ I took a vacation once–it involved a beach–and to tell you the truth, I had no idea what to do with myself. It was torture. Work is life. Without it, there is no life.” He published his memoir in November 2007 and died a year later when he was 96.
COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS May 24, 2008
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In his 2007 book Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, Arthur MacGregor quotes 17th century philosopher and statesman, Francis Bacon, as saying that a proper collection was “a model of universal nature, made private.” MacGregor, who is a curator at the Ashmolean Museum in England, shows that the “purposeful collecting” of Western European collectors embodied nothing less than revolutionary thought on cosmology and nature.
CURIOSITY February 12, 2006
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Josiah Wedgwood considered his nephew Charles Darwin “a man of enlarged curiosity.” Talk about understatement ….
