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Hobbes's name was the basis for one of the characters in Bill Watterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. |
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The tiger in Bill Watterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes was named after Thomas Hobbes; the boy after John Calvin. A Wikipedia sidenote: Thomas Hobbes was the author of the quotation paraphrased by The Cunctator for Wikipedia's official logo: :Desire to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man: so that man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion from other animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. :Leviathan?, Part I, Chapter 6 |
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