We can see from the root of curiosity that being curious is key to healing the fragmented mind and split psyche in Wholeness, which is necessary to answer the most critical unanswered questions in science, not the least to understand the root cause of conflict in the world.
Most significantly, we need the passionate curiosity of Albert Einstein to cocreate World Peace. For, you cannot solve a problem with the mindset that created it, a paraphrase of a statement he made in 1946 in the New York Times Magazine. For, as he wrote, “Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.”
Einstein lamented that the education system tends to strangle the holy curiosity of inquiry, for it is more focused on the glorification of power, than on helping students care for their fellow human beings. So, he felt that curiosity, which he likened to a little plant, is in great need of freedom, nothing to be afraid of. For such curiosity has its own rewards, as Einstein also pointed out:
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only a little of this mystery every day.
Probably around 1378 as curiousite ‘careful attention to detail’, in the writings of John Wycliffe, posthumously declared a heretic, from Old French curiousité, from Latin cūriōsitātem (nominative cūriōsitās) ‘desire of knowledge, inquisitiveness’, from curiōsus ‘careful, attentive, diligent’, from cūrare ‘to care for, pay attention to, trouble about’, from cūra ‘care, anxious’, from Archaic Latin coira-, coisa-, of unknown origin, but possibly from PIE base *kois-.
The original noun senses of care before 1300 were ‘care, concern, responsibility’, in particular ‘spiritual care’. The sense of ‘medical care or treatment, healing, restoration of health’ is first recorded in English around 1380.