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"A scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test."
Right on target. To be good at being open to what is important precisely because it is surprising takes a person who cultivates a child-like personality (and, if she is a woman, a child-like appearance to go with that personality.) This is also true of the best artists, inventors, and poets - anyone whose being is in seeing and dreaming with open eyes.
In my case, I really had to grasp this to understand my own personality, and especially my own sexuality. Living as an adult with a child-like personality can be made very difficult, especially in a society that trusts ignoramuses and bigots with political power: my attraction, to adult women who cultivate a child-like personality and appearance, was repeatedly misidentified as "pedophilia" by ignoramuses and bigots in the grip of pedophile hysteria. Too many give up in the face of that bigotry. Too few think about what we all lose, every time we lose another adult mind that gives up on the child-like open-eyed playfulness of the scientist or artist.
(Edited by Adam Reed
on 10/01, 11:58am)
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