Arnold Edinborough said, “Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died noble”. Intellectual curiosity is an important virtue in my opinion, because in today’s fast-paced world where technology is advancing day by day, new medical breakthroughs occurring, skills at work require updating to keep one 's job, if one doesn’t use intellectual curiosity to question, research, learn, and prepare themselves with knowledge, the workforce can not keep up with the world changes as well as their children’s lives, I have used Marie Curie as a prime example of a person using intellectual curiosity, overcoming several personal obstacles and leading a life developing equipment to enhance the medical field and thereby impacting the world she lived in. Therefore, she is remembered today as having left her mark in her field as well as changing the outlook on women. Intellectual curiosity is a necessary ingredient to living a full life, asking questions and constantly learning. This virtue, intellectual curiosity is a word used to describe the activity of gaining more knowledge about the subject at hand (Sklare). This involves spending time researching the subject to expand our learning of it. Intellectual curiosity stimulates the mind to be active and develops new ideas thereby making one an informative person. Marie Curie’s intellectual curiosity and determination to learn enabled ground-breaking discoveries in the