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'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.
(This is cross-filed in the same annoyance as philosophers who appear to believe that only philosophers are trained to be rational and logical.)
