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First of all, 
we are born scientists.

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When we're born we wonder 
what's out there.

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We begin to wonder about 
the Sun, life, the stars,

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What makes the oceans, the weather.
We're born scientists.

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And then something happens. 
When we hit the danger years.

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The danger years of junior high school in high school. 
That's when it's literally crushed out of us.

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Every little flower of curiosity, said 
Einstein, is crushed by society itself.

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Because we have to learn all these 
facts, figures, memorization.

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We think that memorization is science...
And that's not true at all.

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My daughter had to take the Regents exam once

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and she had to memorize all these facts and figures 
about minerals, crystals, for a geology exam.

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No weird that I see the true driving force
of geology which is continental drift.

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That's the organizing principle 
for all Geology!

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and yet the exam was memorizing all the
names of the crystals and the minerals

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And then later she comes 
up to me and says, "Daddy,

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Why would anyone want 
to become a scientist?"

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That was the most humiliating
event in my entire life.

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I felt like taking that book 
and ripping it apart.

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Because that exam was crushing,

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crushing curiosity right out 
of the next generation.

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and then we wonder "Hey!

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How come people are not more
interested in science, duh?

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