which is more important, book or experience?
...ll the technologies and science as we know today, are composed by the intelligence of innumerous people in different ages. Everyone, however outstanding he may be, merely adds a more log to the ladder on which human seek the truth. And the book is the material to make this ladder. Rarely could human develop any aspects of knowledge, such as astronomy, biography, mechanic etc, if they did not write it down as books. By reading books, we study the theory. We find out mistakes. We improve. Nevertheless, there are also a number of things that we can not turn to the book to find the answers. The emotions, for example, will just be tasted when we factually live in the society. Who can tell the others what is the love? Maybe some people describe it as flowers, as sweety, as the coming of spring in the thousands of famous works such as the Juliet. However, until we fall in love and experience the feelings ourselves, we can not understand those descriptions, or give our unique thought about love . So, the books possibly teach us the scientific things, while they could not instead the experience, which will give us a direct taste of the human feelings. Moreover, the knowledge in the books can only be realized by practice, and sometimes, if not always, it comes from the practice. The knowledge from books - not completely correct- needs to be attested to by experiments, or it will be misleading. For instance, By dropping two bolls in different weights on ...