#042 - Dr Mario Livio - What Makes Us Curious?
Modern Wisdom
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Richard Feynman: A Case Study for Curiosity
Da Vinci avoided politics to avoid getting embroiled in a potentially existential threat by using his cognitive capacity. Richard Feynman was an incredible physicist, of course, Nobel-Oryic in physics. He could one day work on quantum electrodynamics, which, you know, is this theory of the subatomic world and light? And on another, he could work on friction between our shoes and the floor. So really very, very different topics all seemed interesting to him.
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