As an example, let’s examine my feelings toward math. If I understand it, and can properly perform it, I find it cool, and even fun. But when I lack the understanding, and a 30 minute equation turns into 2 hours, it's frustrating and exhausting. It's difficult to find proper tutors or capable students to study with. That is part of the reason why I've returned here.
So would arrogance be measured by whether a scientist would or would not take the time to explain the math? I'm curious as to what you would like to change.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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