Name: THE CURIOSITY GENE - POINT OF UNCERTAINTY
Uploaded: 2024-07-22T03:49:30.000Z
Duration: 2 min 9 s
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My experience is, you go talk to kindergarten kids, or first grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts.

You go and talk to twelfth grade students, and there's none of that.

Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty.

You could give Aristotle a tutorial, and you could thrill him to the core of his being.

Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all-time intellect.

Yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works.

I'm not saying you're more intelligent than Aristotle or wiser.

The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.

You don't have to play the Bunsen burner in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need.

Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture.

It's like we've forgotten who we are now.

But knowledge is preferable to ignorance.

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.

If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

 It would be very healthy for the human species if there were less discouragement and more scientists.

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THE CURIOSITY GENE - POINT OF UNCERTAINTY

profound

embrace

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