"He was always curious and interested in humanity and his relationship to the culture at large.
Today, however, humanity, in its curious ingenuity, has managed to come up with two ways of destroying itself, as well as the very habitat that welcomed and nourished it all these eons.
These disillusions are His curious proving That He loves humanity and will go on loving; Over there are faith, life, virtue in the sun.
Death returned Michael Jackson's humanity, and in a curious, tentative way so too does "Michael Jackson's This Is It," a rushed and ragged monument to the man, his work and the commercial interests of those he left behind.
Not only do they provide a curious and occasionally disturbing record of humanity's effects in this era, they can also provide researchers with surprising insights into the vast ocean currents that sweep the globe.
Only about 1 percent of respondents gave that last answer, but I was curious to know exactly who these humanity-destroying 1 percent were.
"This is a curious inversion of a tendency that decentered humanity since the renaissance.
"Ahmed, it's innovative, curious, bright minds like yours who move humanity forward," tweeted hip-hop and pop musician and producer Pharrell Williams.
In 20 thematic chapters ("Question everything"; "Guard your humanity"), Bakewell captures the wry, curious spirit of Montaigne, who wrote like a "naturalist on a field trip into the human soul".
And I appreciate that, as human beings, we are curious and keen to add to the bank of collective knowledge in the hope of moving humanity on that little bit further.
