"I tried to will them with my super mental powers so he’d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers."

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It's true that the level of scientific knowledge among adults is very low, but that's not because there isn't a natural interest. I think most kids are fascinated by the natural world. I've often said that if you could quantify the mental power involved in all the dinosaur names correctly known and correctly spelled by 5-year-old kids in America, you could move any mountain on earth.

— Stephen Jay Gould