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«The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. By curiosity, I mean whatever desire for or whatever pleasure we take in, novelty.»

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, 1759. Edited by J. T. Boulton, Columbia University Press, New York, 1958.

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«The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.»

Edmund Burke

Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. 1759. Edited by J. T. Boulton; New York: Columbia University Press, 1958. As quoted by Trinity College Dublin.