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21 " Humans became the only species to acquire guidance on how to live from the accumulated knowledge of their ancestors, rather than just from their DNA. "
― Ian Leslie , Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
22 " What made him exceptional were a ferocious will to succeed and a burning sense of epistemic curiosity. Jobs was interested in everything: the Bauhaus movement, the "
23 " A society or an organization that thinks only in terms of puzzles is one that is too focused on the goals it has set, rather than on the possibilities it can’t yet see. "
24 " It reminds us that knowledge is inherently unreliable. "
25 " The most fundamental reason to choose curiosity isn’t so that we can do better at school or at work. 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, one that has been underway for at least as long as human beings have been talking to each other. Other animals don’t share or store their knowledge like we do. "
26 " Mitra’s research became widely known about after he gave a TED talk (from which my account is adapted).* "