Mysteries have a longer half-life than puzzles.

‘a curious octopus.

foxhog.

three stages of curiosity.

In the fifth and final stage, the idea is prodded, tested, tweaked and massaged into reality.

when people are confident that they have the answers they become blithely incurious about alternatives.

Google can answer anything you want, but it can’t tell you what you ought to be asking.

empathic curiosity: curiosity about the thoughts and feelings of other people.

The study also suggests that open-ended, intellectually inviting questions are what you have time for after you’re done with the business of survival.