How simple ideas can lead to scientific discoveries

Many times simple ideas are a spark to great things, they might be for scientific discoveries or for personal meaning of life.

In this TED's Ed presentation, Adam Savage from Mythbusters's tv program, talks about two spectacular examples of scientific discoveries that had been born from creative and intriguing questions that anyone could have made: the Earth circumference's calculus near 200 b.c. by Eratosthenes and the light speed measurement by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1849.

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