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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.59,0:00:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't think of any more human activity
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.56,0:00:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than conducting science experiments.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.77,0:00:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we do as human beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.46,0:00:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we do that more thoroughly and better than any other species on earth
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.00,0:00:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have yet encountered.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.74,0:00:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We explore our environment more than we are compelled to utter poetry when we're toddlers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.14,0:00:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We start doing that later.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.34,0:00:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before that happens every child is a scientist.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.84,0:00:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about it! What the kids do?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.46,0:00:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young kids, kids they can barely walk, what are they doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.30,0:00:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are exploring their environment through experimentation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.18,0:01:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't care about your economic background, I don't care what town you born in, what city, what country,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.78,0:01:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you are a child you are curious about your environment,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.54,0:01:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are overturning rocks
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.86,0:01:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are plucking leaves off a trees, and petals off a flowers, and looking inside,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.90,0:01:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are doing things create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.54,0:01:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so then, what the adults do?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.62,0:01:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say, "Don't pluck the petals of the flowers. I just spent money on that. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.86,0:01:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't play with the egg. It might break. Don't …" Everything is a don't. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.38,0:01:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm often asked by parents \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.22,0:01:41.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.30,0:01:43.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I have only one bit of advice. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.64,0:01:50.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get out of their way! Kids are born curious. Period. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.96,0:02:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We spend the first year teaching them to walk and talk \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.26,0:02:02.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.53,0:02:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So... you get out of their way. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.00,0:02:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what you do? You put things in their midst that help them explore. Help 'em explore.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.86,0:02:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why don't you get a pair of binoculars, just leave it there one day? \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.46,0:02:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch 'em pick it up. And watch 'em look around. They'll do all kind of things with it.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.38,0:02:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.30,0:02:26.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.75,0:02:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.00,0:02:36.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.86,0:02:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so when i think of science I think of a truly human activity. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.17,0:02:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something fundamental to our DNA. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.50,0:02:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something that drives curiosity. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.58,0:02:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They go together. The act of being curious and the act of wanting to do the experiment. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.70,0:03:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you conduct science it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider of what is true and what is not. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.62,0:03:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to create what it is that you do best \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.42,0:03:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that layers onto the formal training that may be behind it. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.06,0:03:17.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.38,0:03:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were never versions of someone else. They were themselves. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.52,0:03:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the great tragedy - People employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.05,0:03:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so... I think the greatest of people in society carved niches \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.58,0:03:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.91,0:03:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.50,0:03:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our society would be transformed over night.