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3 comments:
"How do you know?" I had this conversation just last week. My companions thought I was skeptical about what NASA "knows." I was asking "how" do they "know."
Well...I hit publish before I was ready.
"How" are they getting information from space? "How" did they discover the mathematical formulae necessary? Do the younger scientists just accept the information in their text books, or do they replicate the science in order to "know" for themselves?
Our "knowledge" of science, history, medicine, etc. changes when somebody questions what they "know" and digs deeper.
My questions are not skepticism. My questions are curiosity.
My brain is geared toward words, not numbers or science. I want to know how other people's brains work.
I think that a lot when reading about science. It's neat to learn something, but it's even neater when they explain how they figured it out.
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