Don’t let them starve your curiosity. Ask your questions, and when they refuse you the answers, do one of two things: Demand or search. There are too many mysteries, too many hidden stories for you to close your mind and pretend you wouldn’t like to know what lies on the bottom of the ocean or why humans cry or how cats always land on their feet. How many languages did ever exist? What if the dinosaurs hadn’t died out? Can we ever protect one without hurting another? Ask.

Humanity never got anywhere without being a nuisance about things we don’t understand.

Curiosity has killed, and it will kill again. It makes mistakes. It drives us into making mistakes. It can be the most terrible of mistakes. It errs. It fails. It destroys.

Curiosity is imperfect. And yet.

Curiosity is worth all of that after you witness what losing it does to a human life.