[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.68,0:00:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all, \Nwe are born scientists. Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.02,0:00:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we're born we wonder \Nwhat's out there. Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.38,0:00:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We begin to wonder about \Nthe Sun, life, the stars, Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.82,0:00:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What makes the oceans, the weather.\NWe're born scientists. Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.36,0:00:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then something happens. \NWhen we hit the danger years. Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.94,0:00:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The danger years of junior high school in high school. \NThat's when it's literally crushed out of us. Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.76,0:00:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every little flower of curiosity, said \NEinstein, is crushed by society itself. Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.38,0:00:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we have to learn all these \Nfacts, figures, memorization. Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.98,0:00:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think that memorization is science...\NAnd that's not true at all. Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.10,0:00:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My daughter had to take the Regents exam once Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.46,0:00:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she had to memorize all these facts and figures \Nabout minerals, crystals, for a geology exam. Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.48,0:00:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No weird that I see the true driving force\Nof geology which is continental drift. Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.36,0:01:01.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the organizing principle \Nfor all Geology! Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.48,0:01:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet the exam was memorizing all the\Nnames of the crystals and the minerals Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.08,0:01:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then later she comes \Nup to me and says, "Daddy, Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.28,0:01:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why would anyone want \Nto become a scientist?" Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.72,0:01:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the most humiliating\Nevent in my entire life. Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.26,0:01:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt like taking that book \Nand ripping it apart. Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.10,0:01:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because that exam was crushing, Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.84,0:01:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crushing curiosity right out \Nof the next generation. Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.66,0:01:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we wonder "Hey! Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.62,0:01:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How come people are not more\Ninterested in science, duh? Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.10,0:01:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Discover a new world at\Ntromsite.com