I attended a science class once together with my friends.
We had great teachers who were the best at our times.
Taught about experiments and nature of cause and effects.
Started with hypothesis, controls and of observations.
We were small kids, innocent, fragile, and agile.
Did not know we were controls of our society, for a while.
Halfway through our lives when we realized.
Teachers were not there, so we had to hypothesize.
Years pass by trees grow and die,
Animal colonies rise and succumb to demise.
Great experiment of nature already in front of our eyes
It's power of observation, which will save us our lives.
Story of the Old Monk and the student.
There was an old monk who was considered as wise among his students of generations. He used to take a walk-in afternoon in forest paths. This was a ritual. And one student, the best student was allowed to come with him in this walk, but there was a rule. For the entire journey there should be no dialogue, no questions, only walking. Every student who came back from a walk with him talked about amazing experience they had with nature. And one day, one student of his took the walk with him. As they approached a mountain slope, he saw the amazing view of a sun setting in west and twilight making bright patterns on sky and forest canopies, mesmerized by the beauty he said "Ah! what a beautiful scenery!" Once they came back, he was never invited to the walk again. (too harsh for a punishment). But as you can understand the moral of the story. When we pass our judgements over what we see, then we really cannot see what it is, we are just painting a layer of imagination over it.
Let's stop trying to be monks and listen to a science geek. He would say science is all about experimentation. What do we do in experiments? We identify relationships between cause and effects. But nature has started an experiment for us. If observation is the tool of science, I invite you to observe the nature, as we all are controls of this great experiment!
Thank you for reading Science of nature.
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