Making Trouble
THE FAIRYLAND OF SCIENCE
MAGIC IS IN THE MIND OF A FIFTH-GRADER NEAR YOU.
I HAVE PROMISED TO INTRODUCE YOU TO the fairy-land of science — a somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look upon science as a bundle of dry facts, while fairyland is all that is beautiful and full of poetry and imagination. But I thoroughly believe myself, and hope to prove to you, that science is full of beautiful pictures, of real poetry, and of wonder-working fairies … and though they themselves will always remain invisible, yet you will see their wonderful power at work everywhere around you.”
These are the words of Arabella B. Buckley from The Fairy-Land of Science, penned in 1891. If I thought about a modern-day equivalent ...
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