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: "A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the [[Second Law of Thermodynamics]]. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: ''Have you read a work of [[Shakespeare]]'s?''
: I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question -- such as, What do you mean by [[mass]], or [[acceleration]], which is the scientific equivalent of saying, ''Can you read?'' -- not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same [[language]]. So the great edifice of modern [[physics]] goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their [[neolithic]] ancestors would have had."
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