〈 Berger | Dillon 〉

I've seen the reaction to the "multiplication" video, and it's incredibly disheartening to see some scientists trashing math. I thought we became scientists because we weren't just contented that things worked, but we wanted to know how and why they worked.

The sun rises and sets; everyone knows that. But early astronomers braved persecution to find out how and why. And we are better off for it. The same with disease; people get sick, an everyday phenomenon. But scientists took risks to find out why, giving us germ theory, etc.

If we are willing to take apart a machine, or dissect a cadaver to obtain knowledge of how things, familiar things we see everyday, work, shouldn't it be the same with something like multiplication?