"The other side... of this observation is that.... whichever [way] you look, and whatever you listen to, and wherever you cast your mind... in that part of the universe that you are observing Nature is doing something. So nothing is easier... to discover than science because science is happening all around you. It's just a matter of opening up your mind a little bit, and making a little bit of effort, and... you have to have an eye for surprises, but humans are born to be surprised, and programmed by Mother Nature to be curious... So you just pay attention, and pause, and relax... [E]specially, you shouldn't worry about what other people think, and what your social standing is. If you are interested in something, it's interesting, and if you're not interested in something, it's not interesting. But you should just keep looking, and everywhere you look, you reach out with your right arm, you reach out your left arm. You stick out your left foot and right foot. Everywhere you reach, there is a bit of science in there... [S]o you meet science all over the place. It's very easy."
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Tadashi Tokieda
(Japanese: 時枝ćŁ; born 1968) is a Japanese mathematician, working in mathematical physics. He is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University; previously he was a fellow and Director of Studies of Mathematics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is also very active in inventing, collecting, and studying toys that uniquely reveal and explore real-world surprises of mathematics and physics. In comparison with most mathematicians, he had an unusual path in life: he started as a painter, and then becam
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