{"id":50959,"date":"2021-09-10T17:55:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=50959"},"modified":"2021-09-17T13:24:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:24:55","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2021\/09\/10\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jeff Bezos, hoping to retard ageing, is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/1ac1025e-0f5d-11ec-868a-b68487b876a6?shareToken=db89eb613dd67178d7a3e77e58653ffa\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reportedly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> investing in a company whose stated aim is to do curiosity-driven research. I wonder if he has contemplated the nature of curiosity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curiosity, or wondering (how, whether, why, etc) is one of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2017\/04\/28\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-defining-research\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prerequisites<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for successful research. It implies a desire to know or learn. It comes from the Latin word cura, which means worry or care about anything, a person or thing that is the source of worry, command, a responsibility, post, or task, concern or solicitude, taking care, and therefore the treatment of a sick person or illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Latin verb curare means to care about, watch over, care for, or have charge of something or someone, to undertake a task, or to administer remedies. And the derived adjective curiosus means full of care and therefore careful, diligent, or painstaking, eager for knowledge, inquisitive, or simply curious. The derived noun, curiositas, means excessive eagerness for knowledge, inquisitiveness, or simply curiosity. Many English words contain the cur- root: cure, curate and curator; curette; curio and curious; accurate; manicure and pedicure; procure, procurator, and hence proctor and proxy; secure and sinecure. In some cases cur- becomes sur-, as in sure, assure, ensure, insure, and reassure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Curiosity comes in several forms. Under the heading \u201cdesire to know or learn\u201d, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (OED) gives three choices:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a blamable sense: the disposition to inquire too minutely into anything; undue or inquisitive desire to know or learn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a neutral or good sense: the desire or inclination to know or learn about anything, esp. what is novel or strange; a feeling of interest leading one to inquire about anything.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inquisitiveness in reference to trifles or matters which do not concern one.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curiosity supposedly killed the cat, as the proverb has it, presumably referring to the first and third of these meanings. The original form of this saying was \u201ccare killed the cat\u201d, and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dates it first to the late 16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> century. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Much Ado About Nothing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1598), for example, Claudio tells Benedick that \u201cthough care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care\u201d. And Ben Jonson, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every Man in His Humour<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1598), linked it with another proverb: \u201cHang sorrow! Care\u2019ll kill a cat.\u201d Given the etymological connection between care and curiosity, it may be that confusion between the two led to the modern version, the earliest instance of which the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OED<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dates to 1868. There is also an old rhyme that goes \u201cCuriosity killed the cat \/ Information made it fat.\u201d But the history of the saying, and what obesity may have had to do with it, is unclear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be that as it may, the curiosity that did for the animal is clearly of the overinquisitive type. And there are many other examples. Both Eve and Pandora, for instance, brought ruin on themselves and others by curiosity about matters that they had been warned not to investigate. And when Odysseus\u2019s men opened the bag that Aeolus had given him, curious to know its contents, they let out all the winds and suffered the resultant shipwreck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But many quotations support the proposition that curiosity is also praiseworthy. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OED<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> includes one from James Hayward&#8217;s 1632 translation of Giovanni Francesco Biondi&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eromena, or love and revenge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cA noble and solid curiosity of knowing things in their beginnings\u201d. For his part, Samuel Johnson had much to say, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rambler<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and elsewhere: \u201cCuriosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind\u201d and \u201cCuriosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last\u201d and \u201cA generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more than an eminent degree of curiosity.\u201d Anatole France was also a supporter: \u201cThe whole art of teaching,\u201d he wrote in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1881), \u201cis only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curiosity of this kind is an excellent basis for research. The surgeon Russell John Howard (1875\u20131942), according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/bmj\/2\/4276\/740.3.full.pdf\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The BMJ<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> one of the London Hospital\u2019s \u201cbest-remembered men\u201d, said that &#8220;the first attribute of a surgeon is an insatiable curiosity&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To which I would add, \u201cand of researchers\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong>\u00a0is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford\u2019s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0none declared.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50960 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2021\/09\/aronson_10_sep_2021-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"2845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2021\/09\/aronson_10_sep_2021-scaled.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2021\/09\/aronson_10_sep_2021-244x1024.jpg 244w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2021\/09\/aronson_10_sep_2021-366x1536.jpg 366w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2021\/09\/aronson_10_sep_2021-488x2048.jpg 488w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2021\/09\/aronson_10_sep_2021-640x2687.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos, hoping to retard ageing, is reportedly investing in a company whose stated aim is to do curiosity-driven research. 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