We don't know what a new discovery will be good for until after we make it. If you are curious, then the point of figuring out how something works is to satisf

We don't know what a new discovery will be good for until after we make it. If you are curious, then the point of figuring out how something works is to satisfy your curiosity. If you're not curious, then there is no point to it. On the other hand, curious people poking at things sometimes make discoveries that turn out to be useful. For that reason, even the incurious have learned to tolerate and even encourage the investigations of the curious, even though they often seem pointless.