“Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.”
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.