• "Why do we ask questions? Seriously, I mean what's the point? Who cares why things are creepy? They just are. Who cares why this is called my 'bottom?' It's gross, don't do that anymore, right? Questions. How do I get people TO care about these questions. Especially people who think that learning is boring.
• Well, I like to believe that the limits of what you can be interested in are unlimited.
• ... As Albert Einstein said, 'If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.'
• ... to see the expression on someone's face when the suddenly understand and are fascinated by something in the same way that you are, is a phenomenal feeling. And I've learned two things from this:
  • First of all, people love a good explanation. I mean, they hunt them down. Even people who say they hate learning and that they hate books and all that stuff, they love explanations.
  • Second of all, if you look closely enough and you take the time, anything can be interesting to anyone. Because everything is related in some way to something they care about.
• ... So we want to express ourselves. Everyone wants to express themselves. They do this through the music they listen to, the clothing they wear, the way they act, but they also do it with knowledge: the things they know about the stuff they like, their interests, their hobbies.
• ... Whenever you share a video, whenever you share anything, a few of the attributes of that thing reflect back onto you.
• ... one of the best ways to gain attentive listeners is NOT to be who you think your audience wants you to be, but instead to say and make and show things that allow your audience, or your students, to be who they want to be.
• ... There's no such thing as a stupid questions but there are questions that make us feel stupid.
• ... I started looking more generally into questions. And the more I read about them and their history, the more I realized that questions might be quite unique to humans... So whether or not animals have the capacity to ask questions is still being debated. But after reading all of this, I realized that questions are very special.
• We ask them because it's fun. Learning things is a fun experience. It's what Feynman called a 'kick in the discovery.' We also ask questions because learning things allows us to explore what we like and to show off what we know about it. To show who we are. But we also ask questions because we CAN. Because, perhaps uniquely here on Earth, we know that other people can help.
• And that's a great reason to ask more and more questions: to celebrate more and more whys. We all want to be kicked in the discovery. It feels great. But we all don't have a discovery in the same place. Taking the time to find out where someone's discovery is so you can give them a kick there, isn't just about whys, it's also a very wise thing to do."

- Michael Stevens