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Are you a success with science? Understanding science involves more than merely learning its vocabulary or knowing certain facts. Especially in the physical sciences, scientific concepts begin to make sense only when students apply them. Experts disagree as to whether language precedes thought or thought precedes language, but no one doubts that the mastery of a new vocabulary gives a person access to, and the means of organizing, ever more complex ideas. When your science vocabulary is in place, that is, when you are familiar with the terms, mathematical relationships, and visual images that anchor the concepts you are learning, you will find your mental world expanding. You will think thoughts you've never thought before. And when you try to tell someone else what you are thinking, they will understand! The skills you will learn in science are as empowering as they are indispensable. Science can be done by almost anyone who has the curiosity, the persistence, and the training to do the work. The notion that only geniuses do science misses this point.
A noted science writer and physicist have teamed up to help high school and college students explore the fundamentals of understanding science and the kinds of study and thinking required. BREAKING THE SCIENCE BARRIER: How to Explore and Understand the Sciences can help you discover the pleasure, power, and usefulness of science. It can also help overcome barriers that keep you from learning and applying science effectively.
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