All children feel it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Jr. I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty at Harvard University. The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Humor Andy Kaufman I am not a comic, I have never told a joke. I don't even watch comedians. The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him.