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he question isn’t whether we’ll have curiosity infrastructure, we probably will. The question is whether we’ll build it to expand human wonder or cont

Theoretical work suggests that curiosity and creativity share common psychological foundations—particularly a novelty-seeking tendency—characterized b

The Germans decided that a day without commerce was worth protecting, and wrote it into law. We can’t quite replicate that on our own – a day off is w

Free time was commercially uninteresting. Nobody was billing you for it because there was no mechanism to. “Life is different now. People use up their

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the un

A quote worth repeating: “We are a landscape of all we have seen.” This quote by the Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) is a reminder

Reconceptualizing curiosity as a practice of epistemic connection and the curious subject as essentially embedded in relations prompts a deepening ana

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actu

“Our fingers are our tools” was an instruction Josef Albers gave to students before inviting them to explore simple materials like straw, corrugated c

This intermingling of art and life was central to Hepworth. Just as she lived with nature so she lived with her sculptures: “It’s lovely to live with

Whenever I drive through the countryside and up the hills, I imagine forms placed in situations of natural beauty and I wish more could be done about

“I the sculptor am the landscape”

As the great Harry Belafonte famously said, “When the music is strong, the movement is strong.”

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to r

When we walk in the world we connect to our surroundings, on a basic level our feet tread the paths that many have taken before, looking from afar we

Lastly, because I'm in this emailing you mode right now -- I was working in a banana plantation yesterday out of sheer fun/curiosity before I become a

"Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity , a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose sides.” Tony Sch

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.” —Charles Bukowski