The silliest thing about the "children are natural scientists" line (which is common amongst scientists for whatever reason) is it actually underemphasizes how hard it is to be a scientist, and how many millennia it took before we really had "science" in the modern sense.
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it also assumes curiosity is only scientific curiosity, and misses the way that the same instinct feeds iterative discovery also feeds storytelling and then writing or any number of other disciplines beyond the narrow path plotted by Neil
It's just silly all around. I don't think there is anything to suggest scientists more curious than anyone else. Their curiosity is not what distinguishes them as scientists, anyway — it's the 10,000 hours of training in how to be methodical in a very specific way that does that.
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(This is cross-filed in the same annoyance as philosophers who appear to believe that only philosophers are trained to be rational and logical.)
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That is true. Although my son really does love stealing all my baking soda and vinegar and blowing up my kitchen, I'm not sure it's "science," in the sense that it won't cure or fix anything. (9,999 hours to go).
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