# Quote — Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks On A Road

> Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

- Author: [Zora Neale Hurston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston.md)
- Book: [Dust Tracks On A Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/dust-tracks-on-a-road.md)
- Page: 143
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston#Dust_Tracks_on_a_Road_(1942)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/dust-tracks-on-a-road/research-is-formalized

## More from this book

> Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/dust-tracks-on-a-road/mama-exhorted-her.md)

> If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/dust-tracks-on-a-road/if-you-havent.md)

> Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

p. 203 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/dust-tracks-on-a-road/love-i-find.md)