I love this: “studies show we communicate much more ambiguously than we think we do.” :D
I also agree with this: “reawaken the delight in a world full of mysteries, which has been sapped by the notion that they are already understood, and therefore, no longer important.”
But, I would add that there are mysteries that are understood, and mysteries that are not understood. So, if I’m going to spend my time discovering answers to mysteries, I’m going to choose the less-understood variety, so that I can get published, or the well-understood ones that are practical at the time (how does this #$%! toilet work again?). I, also, have limited time during any given day.
(That doesn’t stop me from spending the odd day trying to re-discover why the units for joules should be able to be expressed as distance-squared-mass units; I’m not a physicist.)
I love this: “studies show we communicate much more ambiguously than we think we do.” :D
I also agree with this: “reawaken the delight in a world full of mysteries, which has been sapped by the notion that they are already understood, and therefore, no longer important.”
But, I would add that there are mysteries that are understood, and mysteries that are not understood. So, if I’m going to spend my time discovering answers to mysteries, I’m going to choose the less-understood variety, so that I can get published, or the well-understood ones that are practical at the time (how does this #$%! toilet work again?). I, also, have limited time during any given day.
(That doesn’t stop me from spending the odd day trying to re-discover why the units for joules should be able to be expressed as distance-squared-mass units; I’m not a physicist.)