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"Science Myths" in
K-6 Textbooks and Popular culture

The complex and abstract nature of Science makes the subject difficult to understand. But complexity is not the only barrier to our understanding Science. The subject is made much more difficult by the presence of numerous misleading "Science Myths" which circulate in the popular culture, which are handed down from parents to children, and which have become so common and widespread that they appear widely in science textbooks and are taught as facts in grade school. (MORE)

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Some Physical Science Misconceptions
      
( K-6 Grade)









Ignorance is not the problem in the world.  It's the things people
"know" that aren't so. - Will Rogers 









Some Electrical Misconception Articles:





 


"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of
the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of
conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which
they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by
thread, into the fabric of their lives." -Tolstoy 






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 "The Truth shall set you free... But first it will piss you off!
" - Anon 



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Some Quotes:


Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;  He who would search for
pearls must dive below. 
   -John Dryden


 
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

- Francis Bacon



It is one Thing, to show a Man that he is in an Error, and another, to
put him in possession of Truth. 
  - John Locke 

 

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

 - Albert Einstein



The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the
understanding. 
  - Francis Bacon



You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your
grandmother. 
 - Albert Einstein



Education is what you have left when you have forgotten everything you
learned in school. 
 - Albert Einstein, 1936



It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not
to our taste.

   - Tyndall



Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong
names of things.
 - Spinoza



When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from 
childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible 
for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, 
and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem 
to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I 
could do it myself.
 - Mark Twain



I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is 
much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that
might be wrong.
 - Richard Feynman



Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

 - Albert Einstein


The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best--and
therefore
never scrutinize or question.
  -Stephen Jay Gould


There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly
all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right.

- Carl Sagan



An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex
incomprehensible truth. - Thumb's Postulates


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