Beings Quote by Tom Chatfield

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

— Ken Robinson

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

— Carl Sagan

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never…

— E. O. Wilson

We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough…

— E. O. Wilson

The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in the brain…

— Daniel Levitin

The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the…

— Hilary Kornblith

If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains... we must learn to crawl into the life…

— Clayton Christensen

Learning is by nature, curiosity.

— Philo

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

— Emily Oster

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable…

— Anonymous

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge…

— Lisa Randall