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Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

Zora Neale Hurston on knowledge

Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10: Research, p. 143

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