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- Most new ideas in science turn out to be wrong. That is because science is working on the frontiers of our knowledge.
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- But, new ideas are worth pursuing regardless of the risks of being wrong. You should never be ashamed of being wrong. Always be proud of your pursuit. Wrong is a learning experience. And, that in an of itself is one of the hardest things to learn.
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- The fact that having organisms populating change over time is obvious today. However, ‘evolution” as a science was hotly debated for 100’s of years. It flew in the face of all religious teachings at the time.
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- Setting up the problem, defining the problem, is often harder than solving the problem.
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- In the real world things are messy and complex. Just look at the middle east situations today. Plowing your way through a problem once “defined” is the easy part. But, it still may take some determination to pursue your own conclusions.
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- Being able to winnow away the irrelevant parts of the problem is the key contributing factors and is often. the harder part ( See Review on Critical Thinking, the first question is ‘ Is this important” ) Get to the relevant parts and leave the rest behind.
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- What did it take knowing the Earth is orbiting the Sun due to an invisible gravitational pull. A force directly proportional to the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Then, describing the Earth as actually falling freely through curved space and time which was created by the Sun’ s mass. A great leap of faith and learning. Whole new definitions of reality.
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- Making a big advance in your knowledge often requires challenging your deepest assumptions. Learning to look at reality with new eyes.
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- A common assumption even today is that space is fixed and absolute. That time is always ticking at a constant rate, one second per second. Clocks around the world can be easily synchronized to the same time. The speed of light communications separates these clocks. You can not overcome that.
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- Following your intuition , doing the obvious, will never get you as far as doing the math. Math can open new eyes.
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- Kepler did the math. The idea of orbiting in nested perfect circles would never let the ancients’ observations fit the math, or vice versa. Substituting ellipses lead to the new laws of planetary motion.
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- Do the testing to learn, do the predictions match the observations? Check your theories do they really match reality? You will never know if there is a better way if you don’t test it. Defining observation with math even works with your finances. The most powerful financial law is in compound interest.
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- Get over it! Failing at something, having a bad idea, simply being wrong, are NOT NEGATIVES. They need to be seen as simply necessary steps on the path to success.
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- Solving a problem happens once it is formulated properly. The human brain is a powerful thing. It invented this math stuff to solve problems.
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