Benjamin Franklin lived by this principle. As Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues like to put it, we should move ideas from bench to bedside-taking isolated facts and adapting them to have real-world consequences. We should follow our curiosity wherever it leads, but once we get there, we should turn what we find into something of value. When we ask questions about the seemingly obvious things around us, the results can be as surprising as they are meaningful. Even if you don’t have the mental horsepower to conjure CRISPR’s scientific magic or solve the equations of general relativity, you can still embrace your instinct for curiosity. But the luminaries I’ve written about-from Doudna to da Vinci, Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs-never lost their childlike sense of curiosity and wonder.
Why is the sky blue? Why is the ocean green? What exactly is life anyway? Many of us are like that as kids, until one day some grown-up tells us to “stop asking so many stupid questions!” Most of us take that advice. When Jennifer Doudna was a girl growing up in Hawaii, she was full of questions.
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race 1.
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