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Ian Leslie on Curiosity

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The Flame of Curiousness Is Not Burning in a Vacuum

When i was younger, i did a lot of empirical work and economics and etrun a rogression statistical technique. And your first impulse is to say, well, i dont wat to tink about thatjust that's a bad result. But there is a point, if you're grown up, you realize, oh my gosh, i discovered something, something i didn't know. The flame of curiosity oes not burn in a vacuum. Iit needs the fuel. You need to kind of feed ourselves and feed other people knowledge. In order to keep going. We ne'd to keep finding out stuff. That, to me, is kind of this wonderful, virtuous circle of curiosity.

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