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“Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.”

Mind Persons Minutes Higher Mere Curiosity Simplicity Finished Impress Insensible

Book:Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting

Source: Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting

“I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.”

Years Made Next Existence Minutes Awareness One Day Curiosity Impossibility One Minute

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. Daniel Bernoulli, Herapath, Joule, Kronig, Clausius, &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with uniform velocity in straight lines, striking against the sides of the containing vessel and thus producing pressure.”

“I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.”

People Sometimes Five Streets Minutes Ten Curiosity

Author:Claude Lelouch

“We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.”

Source: The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions

“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”

Might Knowledge Minutes Curiosity Leisure Trifles Emulation Useful Knowledge

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..