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nowaypablo  ·  3575 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What science excites you?

    Learning high school arithmetic is painfully boring, but it becomes useful eventually

Of course, you're right. that's just my impatience talking. Not a great example either, but something like the concept of absolute values can be learned as it's being applied too. And with more memorable purpose at that. I'm speaking for the sake of haste, efficiency, I guess.

Not that I or most people want to spend all day learning, either. That's an argument of it's own of course.





mknod  ·  3574 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The best part about physics is not the physics but the training your brain gets from thinking about things in a whole and different manner.

The best way to pass a physics class is not to know any formulas.