Math and science. In the eyes of a student, these words may be an infliction, the cause of years of struggling and stress. However, these terms have more importance than grades. They are taught in school so they can be used in adulthood, where they are key to our everyday lives. We have had people discovering and teaching us math and science for thousands of years, people like Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and many more. Math and science have had a monumental, revolutionary impact on the world because of deeper understandings, the humbling of humans, and the way we interact with the universe.
Deeper understandings are vital for humans. We have components of our brains that make us rely on curiosity and knowledge to go about our daily lives. We wonder what things mean, and therefore we are compelled to try and learn them. If we don’t know what something means, we could spend years questioning ourselves about it. Scientists and mathematicians have spent years trying to look for answers. For example, doctors have been attempting to discover the cure for cancer for many centuries. Without math and science, humans wouldn’t have enough knowledge to get by. We would die out because we didn’t know how to correctly deal with our circumstances.
Humans have varying personalities. They can be kind, humble, gentle, or they can be angry, rude, proud. Math and science humble us. They put up challenges as well as giving us the power to explore the meaning of life. Math and science are reasons to get up in the morning, a challenge that we might solve or something fun and enticing. Math and science help us understand more about the world and the universe, further teaching ourselves and giving us more questions that we try to answer. It’s a never-ending cycle of questions and answers, humans trying to understand everything about the world for the sake of their own minds. It gives us a reason to look at the sky and wonder if there’s anyone else out there, or to look at a glass of water and wonder what the volume is.
The way we interact with the universe has evolved substantially over the centuries. By achieving a better state of intelligence, we have changed the questions we ask ourselves and the people around us. We now know why the sky is blue and how to find the circumference of a circle, and we can assume that the universe is eternal because we’ve never found the edge. We know that the earth is spherical because we’ve seen it from outer space. By knowing these things, we can individually change our questions from “Why is the sky blue?”, “How do I find the length of the perimeter of a circle?”, “Are we the only people in the universe?”, and “Is the earth round?” to “What causes us to see it blue and not red or green?”, “How do I know this is the circumference?”, “Are there other people in the universe?”, and “Are there planets that aren’t round?” Changing our questions affects what we explore, discover, and comprehend.
Although many people struggle more with math and science rather than enjoy them or use them to our advantage, many people have given us the intelligence we need to keep going, a humbling of humanity, and the way we interact with the universe. This has been causing a monumental, revolutionary impact on humans for thousands of years, giving us new questions, new answers, and most importantly, a reason to keep learning and improve ourselves.
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