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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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