I will return to this later, but it is appropriate here for the time being:

Research is formalised curiosity.

Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Chapter: 10 (Research) page: 143. From <https://www.askideas.com/research-is-formalized-curiosity-it-is-poking-and-prying-with-a-purpose-2/>