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katierosefun · 1 year

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god the way i'm not exactly a mathematician or a scientist but i'll always be obsessed with how certain scientists explain the way they see love in the world or when mathematicians see the poetry behind the numbers

#caroline talks #when bill masters in masters of sex described gravity and love in the same breath #when my science professor explained to us how locust trees still grow these spiky branches bc they miss the mammoths #and when i started getting a lump in my throat after that class because oh. i get it now. i get why some people #are so devoted to this branch of academia.#or when i listen to engineers talk about the beautiful things they want to create #and how it really isn't all that different from artists and writers and musicians y'know #like. the act of creation. the act of discovery.#it's all because we love something or we're haunted by something and we're all figuring out *why*#and it makes me. want to scream.#my physics teacher once explained that physics and philosophy are so incredibly similar and that was the one comment #that got me curious about physics. and also philosophy tbh.#because it was that idea of two VASTLY different fields (at least on the surface) being obsessed with the same questions #human beings are all haunted by the same thing or whatever. we're all curious about the same thing. we're all reaching for the same thing!!

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