Mr. Pivot's easy charm, intellectual curiosity and boyish enthusiasm have clearly contributed to his popularity: with his donnish tweed jacket and half-moon glasses, he is a welcome guest in any book-lined sitting room.
Landing a robot on another planet is never an easy task, and Curiosity's touchdown will perhaps involve more hand-wringing than usual.
It is also becoming ever easier for that curiosity to lead to discovery.
At any rate, we should not let war or half-baked political decrees pervert our native habits of curiosity and easy engagement.
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The author, a historian at the Sorbonne, narrates developments in the material, aesthetic and sociological dimensions of the color black with infectious, wide-ranging curiosity and easy-going erudition.
Coupled with easy access to drugs, that curiosity became dangerous.
Her charismatic blend of fierce intellect and childlike curiosity makes it easy to see how she's able to persuade complex personalities to give her privileged access to their intimate creative processes.
This process, teachers have told us, was an easy way to raise student curiosity about news and cultures around the world, as well as an opportunity for students to practice some of the skills the Common Core demands.
And while their interests may vary — Simons' thing for fish, for example, is his thing alone — they share an easy personal chemistry and insatiable curiosity about science, a category that, for them, embraces multitudes.
