Nobel Prize Winner Scientist Kip Thorne And Science Writer Frank Hilario – Both Learning How To Teach!?

84-year old science writer me, I did not expect to learn from Kip S Thorne, Nobel Prize Winner 2017, but today, Monday, 03 June 2024, I did as a teacher in science. Additionally, I find that Mr Thorne and Mr Hilario were born in the same year, 1940. Serendipity? More like Curiosity – I always want to find more about something even when I already know about something!

In his interview with Eswaramoorthi Sellappa Gounder on 06 December 2017 after he won the Nobel Peace Prize (LinkedIn,  Linkedin.com), Mr Thorne said quite clearly:

The most enjoyable part of science is doing it. It is sometimes very hard, sometimes very frustrating but extremely rewarding when you suddenly understand something. It is an adrenaline rush when you suddenly understand something. It does not matter very much whether somebody else has understood it first or not. It is nice if you are the first person, but just to suddenly understand a puzzle that you have been struggling with for a long time is just fabulous. And it is remarkable that we as humans are capable of understanding the physical world around us in such detail that we can predict things that turn out to be true, that we can understand things that are very far from Earth, such as the black holes that we have described colliding with gravitational waves. And that we can use the understanding we develop in the physical laws for technology for human benefit, so that aspect of it also is really quite wonderful. The power of science for understanding and for technology. But personally, the joy of discovery is the big deal.

Mr Thorne says, “The most enjoyable part of science is doing it.” And you know what? I know that the most enjoyable part of writing is doing it! (mage from pexels.com). Whether it’s science or some other subject. Lesson: You have to learn to love what you are doing in order to do not only what is right but what you enjoy the most.

“It is sometimes very hard, and sometimes very frustrating” – but you have to go on because you want to learn, and you want to enjoy while you are learning!

“The joy of discovery is a big deal.” Yes! Mr Thorne. When suddenly you realize something that it is true, your joy cannot be put into any amount of money.

And why did I put that above image to illustrate this essay? To show that being female is not a hindrance to knowledge; and to show that we need the digital world to keep and increase our knowledge of the world.

“The highest pleasure is the joy of understanding” – Leonardo Da Vinci.

Above, I did choose a girl with a laptop (from pexels.com): Why? Because I believe there is no gender gap in science – also, it is a way of encouraging more females to take up Science theorizing and/or intellectualizing. I writer have found the laptop an incredible partner – why not the young/old fe/male scientists?!@517