Without the necessity to fend for ourselves in those first ten or twenty years, we can focus on learning about the niche into which we have been born and form our own ideas about it.

The naughtiness of infants is experimental, a method of data collection.

The true beauty of learning stuff, including apparently useless stuff, is that it takes us out of ourselves, reminds us that we are part of a far greater project,

But in a complex world, it’s impossible to know what might be useful in the future. It’s important, therefore, to spread our cognitive bets. Curious people take risks,

“Our comforting conviction the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”

CURIOSITY HAS BEEN CALLED “THE KNOWLEDGE EMOTION.”

The more we know about something, the more intense our curiosity is about what we don’t know.

Unfettered curiosity is wonderful; unchanneled curiosity is not.

We are part biological organism, part cultural; we need both sunlight and knowledge to thrive.