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from this month's Scientific American. It's short enough that I will just include it in its entirety here. Brilliant.
" In the Key Concepts for Alison Gopnik's "How Babies Think," the wording and perspective are not quite correct: "Children learn about the world much as scientists do-in effect, conducting experiments, analyzing statistics and forming theories to account for their observations." I believe you meant to say: "Children learn about the world much as scientists do-smashing things to smithereens, staring in wonder at the results and then breaking out in giggles."
Michael Jacob
Oakland, Calif."
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Boston Children's Museum
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." " --Isaac Asimov
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