Concept in Definition ABC

We understand by curiosity the act by which a person or an animal is concerned about a phenomenon and seeks to know it through, normally, the experience empirical, that is, acting directly on it. Curiosity always implies a wish strong enough to want to access knowledge, no matter how much that source of knowledge or that I wish they were neither conscious (this especially in the case of animals but not of mode excluding). Curiosity can be understood as a attitude dangerous if one does not measure the consequences of one's advance on knowledge. However, in the case of human beings it can easily lead the person to access information, knowledge or learning that otherwise I would not have.

Curiosity could be described as a impulse somewhat irrational and uncontrollable. When one is curious about something he does it from the place of wanting to know more about that particular phenomenon because he feels incomplete or dissatisfied with the information he has. In this way, curiosity is different from interest since the second does not necessarily speak of a compulsion to know the truth or the explanation of such phenomenon.

Although the idea of ​​curiosity is usually related to a somewhat invasive or excessive attitude, in many cases we could say that curiosity is precisely the starting point of all knowledge that human beings have achieved since it is only from that urgency to know that man developed different methods of investigation to solve that concern. In a sense also, all scientific research starts from a more or less obvious curiosity that makes professionals in each area want to study and analyze certain phenomena in order to understand and complete the information they do not have.