Tuesday 13 September 2016

THE ADVERSARY (EMMANUEL CARRÈRE) AND THE JOY OF KNOWING THE SCIENTIFIC TAXONOMY

I gazed the flight of bird whose names I didt know across the grey sky; I am not able to distinguish either birds or trees, and that seems sad to me


If you know the name of birds and trees, your conversation while strolling gets richer. This is a kind of knowledge that is more appreciated by old people. It´s also a kind of knowledge which divides science people: the pure scientific type even pay no atention to it. Indeed, many students decide to study Science and things like Physics or Math because they want to escape from memoristic studies. The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, when a lot of new particles began to appear in Physics, said: If I were able to remember so many particle names, I would have studied Botanics