"I'm not going to do my math homework. Look at these unsolved problems. Here's a number in mortal combat with another. One of them is going to get subtracted, but why? How? What will be left of him? If I answered these, it would kill the suspense. It would resolve the conflict and turn intriguing possibilities into boring ol' facts." "I never really thought about the literary qualities of math." "I prefer to savor the mystery." ~Calvin and Hobbes.
I think this can be applied to science as well. Once you learn that the stars are just big balls of gas, they become far less intriguing and you lose interest. If only more people read Calvin and Hobbes.
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