Curiosity is its own reason.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.