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cometscrater:

reading a textbook for class and i’m going insane. why is this just poetry. what. this is a STEM class what’s going on.

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HELLO????? HELLO?????

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities. If they are not there, science cannot create them. If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

- Rachel Carson (1952)

no one can write truthfully about evolution and leave out the poetry, etc.

intactics:

one of the best aspects of this website is that if you say something incorrect and the post takes off you are 100% guaranteed to be corrected at some point by somebody who knows what they are talking about because the “un(willingly)employed savant with an axe to grind” population here is off the fucking charts. you won’t just be told you’re wrong, you’ll get a short thesis about it and maybe some graphs

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