“It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.” IndividualResultsConditionsCuriousBrands Book:The decline and fall of science Source: The decline and fall of science
“Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic.” HandsResultsReactionsCuriousBoredomChemicalsLunaticDynamiteChemical Reactions Author:Anne Morice
“To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.” GivingChristianReligiousResultsInfluenceTeachingDangerousImportanceTendenciesCuriousPaganism Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.” MindPastOpportunityWaitingResultsMajorsResourcesInvestingAvailableCuriousWillingnessOddsMultiplePrudenceInvolvingDiagnosisVariablesUsing Resources Author:Charlie Munger
“Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.” KindSeemsResultsCommonSuccessfulUltimatePropertyObviousCommon SenseCuriousWorking ItPrincipalCriteriaAnticipateValidation Author:Russell L. Ackoff