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The speaker says physics education develops valuable abilities to build models and abstractions and to understand systems.
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“And I think physics uniquely boots up the brain the best,”
“because some of the things that they get you to do in your brain during physics is extremely valuable later. The idea of building models and abstractions and understanding.”Play from 2:15:29Report a misattribution
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