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When we question, we are constrained by the topic at hand. Any queries that extend beyond that topic are deemed superfluous and therefore discouraged. Think of a lawyer chided by the judge for veering into “immaterial” lines of questioning, or a high school student reprimanded by her teacher for straying “off topic.” Wondering is open-ended, expansive. Wondering is what makes us human. That’s been true ever since the first caveman wondered what would happen if he rubbed two sticks together,
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Eric Weiner (The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers)