Curiosity! In whatever way you would think of it, still comes to one thing – a strong desire to experience or learn something unusual or interesting. It is embedded in our day to-day-life. Our lives would be boring without it. This brings about an interesting question … Did curiosity really kill the Cat or did the Cat die of natural causes and how can we be sure about it? Does curiosity mean going into other people's privacy to dig out dirty secrets with which to threaten them? This book explores these and many more questions.This book was written in genuine appreciation of the cumulative effect of the elegance of curiosity and creativity in the arts, music industry, news and social media, earth and space exploration, medicine, architecture, engineering, science and technology and others, on which the edifice of our modern civilization is built. The contributions of people in different fields have made this planet a better place for living. Their contributions have given us freedom from inefficiency, mental servitude, nakedness, boredom, ignorance, hunger, disease and freedom from traversing thousands of miles on foot or horses. Read this book for your enjoyment, entertainment and enlightenment. It is a thrilling nonfiction book. If The Elegance of Curiosity comes your way, get it … then you will believe that, indeed, there are incredible wonders that we take for granted!

本書は、人類の進歩を支えてきた「好奇心」という衝動を、単なる知的好奇心を超えた「エレガンス」として捉え直す壮大な人間賛歌です。多様な分野の知性が集い、科学、芸術、テクノロジーがいかにして私たちの生活を不自由から解放したかを説く筆致は、圧倒的な熱量に満ちています。当たり前だと思っていた現代文明の恩恵が、いかに美しく切実な探求心の結晶であるかを、あらためて突きつけてくるのです。 読み進めるうちに、読者は「好奇心は猫を殺す」という格言を脱ぎ捨て、未知を追うことこそが真の豊かさであると確信するでしょう。退屈や無知から脱却し、世界の不思議を再発見するためのこの一冊は、眼前に広がる景色を劇的に変えてしまうはずです。これほどまでに情熱的で、人間への深い信頼に満ちたノンフィクションは他にありません。知の探究へと誘う、至高の招待状です。