“Research is a formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes to know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.”
-- from Modern American Memoirs (edited by Annie Dillard and Cort Conley), excerpt by Zora Neale Hurston, page 390
#smallquotes
(with more than a hint here of #smallstories ... being curious and 'research' being observations of the world)