The simplest answer is usually the truth. Its silly though, it just blocks then from thinking in another direction and maybe discovering something more applicable.
Oh my god, I'm so jealous! What languages do you speak?
Yeah, a lot of people just reject things which aren't empirical, which, if anything makes them worse scientists. Being able to think about supposedly impossible things and thinking about people is what leads to inovation. There's this whole other world of learning that's just as vital to being any sort of human being and a whole bunch of people (including my country's government, at the moment) are writing it of as irrelevant because we're in recession, or a war, or we need more scientific progress.
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Date: 2011-09-09 07:04 pm (UTC)Oh my god, I'm so jealous! What languages do you speak?
Yeah, a lot of people just reject things which aren't empirical, which, if anything makes them worse scientists. Being able to think about supposedly impossible things and thinking about people is what leads to inovation. There's this whole other world of learning that's just as vital to being any sort of human being and a whole bunch of people (including my country's government, at the moment) are writing it of as irrelevant because we're in recession, or a war, or we need more scientific progress.