The Importance of Curiosity in Science

"I love how many rabbit holes you can go down," Hawking says of science. "The simpler the question, usually the more complex the answer, the deeper you have to go." The Sumerians and Mayans were looking up at the sky wondering like why do planets sometimes go the other way? And why do things rotate around the poll stars? All these things come from our very human, very ancient curiosity about the nature of the world around us", he adds.