In the “Confessions,” Augustine warns of curiosity for the sake of curiosity. A cautionary note against inquisitiveness seems odd coming from one of the greatest minds of antiquity.

But perhaps one could argue that it was a strong sense of curiosity that started the scientific revolution (such as Bacon’s “Instauration”), produced great inventions, and has run itself to exhaustion, forgetting where it started.

Richard’s point about myth is very well taken.