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Incidentally, while I love that quote (and used the game in my MLP fanfiction), the book it comes from is not one I'd recommend.
I'm also not sure how empirically valid it is (i.e. does asking this game actually make the children more curious and perceptive?), and am not sure what balance parents should strike between questions and answers. Other stories of childhood development seem to focus on parents always surprising their children with new things to notice and think about; the example that comes to mind is Feynman's father often bringing things to his attention, and a question game may be suboptimal for that goal.
Now that you mention Feynman I recollect that I actually used one of the games/stories from Feynmans autobiography for my children: A story of some very small dwarfs that wandered thru a strange land of regular red and blue trees: Ants on a carpet. It was very interesting for my second son who has a very high interest in plants and animals and who after I told the story took his pocket microscope http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000OZXY22/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and looked at the capet and said: 'it looks like grass'.