[lbo-talk] Baby thoughts
Miles Jackson
cqmv at pdx.edu
Mon Aug 31 15:52:20 PDT 2009
Chris Doss wrote:
> Well that's true of all animals (which tend to do it a lot faster since they're not born premature). It's not a sit-down-and-rationally-figure-things-out kind of process.
>
> --- On Mon, 8/31/09, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
>> I mean, just watching my own kid, I realized rug rats are
>> practically
>> speaking little drooling Einsteins. They have to figure out
>> how their
>> body works and how the world works.
>>
Hey, for once I agree with the DOSSmeister (although I still refuse to
top-post!). Science is a relatively recent human invention; people and
animals they been figuring out how their bodies work and how the world
works for a long, long time. Perhaps turn the referent of the simile
around: a scientist is like--a little drooling baby?
Miles
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