"Curiosity is the mother of science" is what Fan Zeng said.

Fan Zeng, also known as Shiyi, was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He is a contemporary Chinese thinker, a master of Chinese studies, a master of calligraphy and painting, a litterateur, and a poet. Dean and Chair Professor of the Institute of Chinese Painting at Peking University, lifelong researcher at the Chinese Academy of Arts, the only tenured professor at Nankai University and Nantong University, "Special Consultant for Multiculturalism" of UNESCO, Honorary Doctor of Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK, Albany, Canada Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Berta.

He is a cultural master in contemporary China who integrates poetry, calligraphy, painting, literature, history and philosophy, as well as Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. He has written numerous works throughout his life and has published more than 160 kinds of poetry, calligraphy, painting and philosophy works, which are collected by the National Library. 119 of them.

Quotes about curiosity:

1. Curiosity about bad things is a cursed disease, arising from all unclean contact. ——Muset.

2. Without curiosity and pure desire for knowledge as motivation, it would be impossible to produce inventions and creations of great value to mankind and society. ——Lu Denting.

3. Selflessness is a rare morality because there is no profit from it. ——Brecht.