28 APR 2012 by ideonexus
Experience is Experiment
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry. Emerson describes the importance of feeling electric shocks, fake volcanoes, tasting NO, etc.