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Graduation Speech: Think Like a Scientist : Uncertain Principles
“ Science isn’t about facts that you learn in school, it’s a habit of mind, an approach to dealing with the world. The most important thing in science isn’t an organism you talked about in Mr. Wiley’s biology class, or a reaction from Mr. Mannix’s chemistry class, or a formula from Mr. Peck’s physics class. The most important thing in science is the moment when somebody looks at the world and says “Huh. I wonder why that happened? ”