First of all, 
we are born scientists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My daughter had to take the Regents exam once

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

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

That's the organizing principle 
for all Geology!

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

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

Why would anyone want 
to become a scientist?"

That was the most humiliating
event in my entire life.

I felt like taking that book 
and ripping it apart.

Because that exam was crushing,

crushing curiosity right out 
of the next generation.

and then we wonder "Hey!

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

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