This is the month in which Nobel Prize winning physicist, Erwin Schrödinger was born (August 12, 1887). On his birthday, I found myself wondering about the english idiom, "curiosity killed the cat" along with Schrödinger's famous thought experiment - explained well in the above video.

I wondered with whom it originated, around what time, and how it is typically used today as compared to Schrödinger's remix of the idea that 'curiosity kills.'