Created Thursday 04 February 2021
- This is correct.
Curiosity is actually the starting point of life and of survival, because the environment(both naturally and artifically) is changing. It has enabled everything that we know of.
- Curiosity brings a kind of novelty, which makes us happy. This is a greedy solution.
- Curiosity solves many problems we have, or might have.
- Curiosity leads to science, which is the best tool humans have found till date.
- Being curious can cause us to be shunned, but that's okay. Living a life in your own skin is much more important than whims of the society.
"I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious” – Albert Einstein
“There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.” – Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.” – Edmund Burke
“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious! ” – Katherine Johnson
“Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.” – John Locke
“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.” – Henry L. Doherty
- Don't get into untestable stuff, it is very subjective and problematic most of the time.
- Most of the untestable stuff can be handled well by the primate behavior within us.