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The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above the former, and yet it is the former that moves one of the most useful men the human race has yet produced: the scientific investigator. What actually urges him on is not some brummagem idea of Service, but a boundless, almost pathological thirst to penetrate the unknown, to uncover the secret, to find out what has not been found out before. His prototype is not the liberator releasing slaves, the good Samaritan lifting up the fallen, but a dog sniffing tremendously at an infinite series of rat-holes.

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H.L. Mencken

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If there__ one thing all diviners share, it__ curiosity. We really can__ help it; it__ just part of who we are. If you dug out a tunnel somewhere in the wilderness a thousand miles from anywhere and hung a sign on it saying, __arning, this leads to the Temple of Horrendous Doom. Do not enter, ever. No, not even then_, you__ get back from lunch to find a diviner already inside and two more about to go in.Come to think about it, that might explain why there are so few of us.