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Marston Bates
(23 Jul 1906 - 3 Apr 1974)
American zoologist and writer who studied mosquitoes and tropical diseases. He was also an environmental activist.
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Marston Bates
“if…curiosity were less easily satisfied by dogma,”
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This quote by Marston Bates from his book, The Nature of Natural History comes from a pararaph in which he compares the curiosity of children and adults in general with the curiosity of scientists in their research:
“All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet curiosity by giving the answers, rather than by some method that leads from narrower questions to broader questions. It is hard to satisfy the curiosity of a child, and even harder to satisfy the curiosity of a scientist, and methods that meet curiosity with satisfaction are thus not apt to foster the development of the child into the scientist. I don't advocate turning all children into professional scientists, although I think there would be advantages if all adults retained something of the questioning attitude, if their curiosity were less easily satisfied by dogma, of whatever variety.”
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