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 "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the immensity of the sea." - //Antoine de Saint-Exupery// "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the immensity of the sea." - //Antoine de Saint-Exupery//
  
-====Teaching/Learning====+====TeachingLearning & Science Communication====
  
 "Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - //Benjamin Franklin// "Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - //Benjamin Franklin//
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 "Approximations foster understanding" - //Sanjoy Mahajan// "Approximations foster understanding" - //Sanjoy Mahajan//
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 +"All too often my colleagues and I present this knowledge in ways so abstract that no one understands why we looked for it in the first place. The disconnect between experts and non-experts is so widespread that Steve Fuller claims that academics use incomprehensible terminology to keep insights sparse and thereby more valuable, and Nicholas Kristof complains, academics encode "insights into turgid prose", and "as a double protection against public consumption, this gobbledygook is then hidden in obscure journals."" - //Sabine Hossenfelder//
  
 ====What is science about?==== ====What is science about?====
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