Limitless Curiosity

I don’t think we can talk about only human nature when it comes to curiosity. Dogs, cats, and rabbits all have the same initial feeling we do when something new appears in front of them, or there’s an area available to be explored. All of us as species just want to learn the unknown’s function and meaning, and of course whether to be scared of it or not. As we’re the only species with the proper brain to acknowledge and explore the unknown that is space, though, we’re the lucky ones that get to check it out. Our greatest unknown happens to be our greatest opportunity to develop and expand our civilization intellectually and across multiple planets, which is amazing.

I’d say the reason all of us as species act this way towards the unknown can be simplified down to “we’re capable of learning, so we want to.” It’s nothing more than a desire to learn, which we can just call curiosity. Curiosity has influenced every single thing we, as a civilization, know today. Our species would have died off in about 3 days if the cavemen and women didn't teach themselves what food, water, and fire was. As long as our species survives, which space exploration will directly increase the chances of, our curiosity will lead to an endless amount of development, with the last step being us civilized on every planet in every galaxy in the universe. Should that day come in trillions of years, maybe our curiosity will run dry. Until then, it’ll continue to drive us to explore all aspects of knowledge that there is.