Big things can come in small minds

Adam Savage is a special-effects artist, fabricator, model maker, and as Disney would put it an imaginer. Since 2002 Adam and another film industry veteran Jamie Hyneman have been the host of the Discovery channel hit show “Myth busters”, where they take unlikely and see if it could be made likely.

Adam had spoken to college students on “how simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries” and the speech was posted for TED.com.  Adam went on to talk about inventors of the past and how their own curiosity and dedication to finding the truth behind something is what led to great discoveries and inventions used throughout the ages; Inventors and theorist such as Richard Feynman a scientist of quantum physics and Aristoteles also known as Aristotle- theorist in natural philosophy. The story of Richard Feynman was significant because, when Feynman was a child he asked his father why the ball in the wagon moved to the back of the wagon when you pulled it and his father explained it to be inertia.  Feynman credits this conversation with his father to be the catalyst for his obsession and career. I believe the story of Richard Feynman to be important because it shows how an idea no matter how small can stick with us throughout our days and influence us through the paths of life.

Adam kept his young audiences attention with animated visuals complementing what he was talking about, and high energy, which was fueled by his passion of the subject.

Adam does not speak of adversity he dealt with personally or anything about himself at all, but he does speak of how Galileo was replaced in history for the one who discovered the earth was round, over 1800 years later by Christopher Columbus. Yes many others that were highly educated or well versed in the work of Aristoteles would know that Columbus did not discover the fact that the earth was round, but the fact that there were two astute individuals that found their major discoveries through entirely different yet simple methods should be enough to inspire anyone to rediscover a theory or even dig deeper into a forgotten dream from their youth.