“If you go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you
find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions: ‘What is a
dream?’ ‘Why do we have toes?’ ‘Why is the moon round?’ ‘What is the birthday
of the world?’ ‘Why is grass green?’ These are profound, important questions.
They just bubble right out of them. You go talk to 12th graders and there's
none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between
kindergarten and 12th grade.” – Carl Sagan
“There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and
land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an
educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions
remain clueless throughout their lives.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy
godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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