Taking botany was up there with physics and chemistry as one of the best and most impactful courses I've taken.
It feels like a real phenomenon, there's knowledge that can be learned, and certainly has a Eureka moment once you start seeing it.
Social sciences and mathematics feel more about learning stuff other people said, and the latter more about preparing to do useful stuff. The natural science just have that undeniable factual knowledge that is transferred and my brain just accepts never to let it go, as it doesn't come from humans, it's not political, it's truth.
And it's not one of the boring subjects like geology or edafology, there's an undeniable psychic problem with talking about, sitting in a lecture listening about, looking at and thinking about rocks that plants just don't have. Ok, sorry minerals, I still don't care.
To me plants where just always green stuff, I doubt I could have even surmised a fraction of the knowledge just by observing them carefully even if I tried.
It feels like a real phenomenon, there's knowledge that can be learned, and certainly has a Eureka moment once you start seeing it.
Social sciences and mathematics feel more about learning stuff other people said, and the latter more about preparing to do useful stuff. The natural science just have that undeniable factual knowledge that is transferred and my brain just accepts never to let it go, as it doesn't come from humans, it's not political, it's truth.
And it's not one of the boring subjects like geology or edafology, there's an undeniable psychic problem with talking about, sitting in a lecture listening about, looking at and thinking about rocks that plants just don't have. Ok, sorry minerals, I still don't care.
To me plants where just always green stuff, I doubt I could have even surmised a fraction of the knowledge just by observing them carefully even if I tried.
Thank Linnaeus et al