content: Couldn't agree more. Getting a grasp on physics, particularly relativity and at least a superficial understanding of quantum mechanics, has completely changed my view on life - for the better. When you're a kid or young adult you, at least speaking of most and myself most certainly, don't really grasp what you're learning. And at most universities professors who are more interested in getting back to their research than teaching and inspiring aren't helping much. Calculus is everywhere, redox reactions are infinitely powerful, and whatever you think you know about physics and our universe even down to things as basic as time are probably completely wrong.  Heck even getting back to basic Newtonian physics - basic things like the balance between kinetic and potential energy, or the wonder of energy in general. I visit another forum for astrophysics and somebody asked a simple question, "What is energy?" It was amazing how many people with excellent educations could not succinctly answer the question in a way that did not hand wave - that is a consequence of learning the theory and abstract without actually thinking about what it is you're learning. Perhaps a consequence of the fact that there's simply so much to learn. When you're young you never actually have time to sit back and take it in.