What Charles Darwin thinks about curiosity

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British naturalist (1809 to 1882), born in Shrewsbury; sailed as naturalist on the five-year voyage of HMS Beagle from 1831; author of On the Origin of Species.

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   Our readingViewing species as separate creations blocks inquiry into the causes of expression

   Their wordsNo doubt as long as man and all other animals are viewed as independent creations, an effectual stop is put to our natural desire to investigate as far as possible the causes of Expression. By this doctrine, anything and everything can be equally well explained; and it has proved as pernicious with respect to Expression as to every other branch of natural history.

   ↗The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book