To begin with, I'm a science undergraduate, back in school, when i wasn't keeping well and scoring bad*, the entire world told me to quit the idea of pursuing sciences, the idea of studying it.Every other significant,insignificant person in my life contributed to this debate,all with the same suggestion; Quit Science.How could I ? "Why not",they asked, I couldn't say "because i watch discovery, i like science" or prolly "because i need to know how stuff around me works,I want to study science" because this legitimate argument was inacceptable in all forms (for obvious reasons) I couldn't tell anyone that I loved every bit of it, i want to understand the world i live in, its might, the nature, its fury, and the fact that whatever happens has a reason, unlike something like existence of god (Sorry, couldn't help it).Btw this is one of the things on my mind these days , i need to get rid of this habit of talking about god under any inappropriate topic.Coming back, I wanted to learn. Every other detail about nature universe everything especially in that phase when i realized humans cannot know everything about anything. And my curiosity grew.I sucked academically* but that has nothing to do with my learnings (the world laughed,quitting it seemed a saner option,to them) I didn't regret.Then, my brother gifted me this book "Surely you're joking mr. Feynman" and i loved it again. It looked like a whole new world had emerged out of those odd 300 pages,Discovery internet books natgeo history every little thing contributed to my love and respect for science.It takes me off this world beyond the worldy webs, I stand in awe, feeling so small, like an atom.
"In order to be so perceptive about the meaning of a spot on someone's shoe, you have to ignore the solar system"
* By Central Board of Secondary Education standards
p.s. - prolly is a slang for probably ( Didn't feel like changing the word altogether)
- I don't have a record who wrote the quote (hence, no credits here)
- Just reali'z'ed , it doesn't take 's' for the word "realized".
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