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When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions | Aeon Ideas

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There’s no such thing as hard or easy sciences – only hard or easy questions. How what we ask limits our understanding

Deceptively complex. Photo by PxHere The fish will be the last to discover water. Modern proverb Talk to high-school students preparing for their science exams, and you’ll probably hear two things: that they’re scared of physics, and relatively comfortable with biology. Strangely, this is contrary to the view of most researchers. The scientific zeitgeist is that physics is easy. Its simplicity comes from an ability to create crystalline theories that are powerfully predictive, for everything from the existence of subatomic particles to how light bends around stars. Biology, on the other…

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