A fine choice for the House Committee for Science, Space, and Technology

[Ironside]

It's all stuff you learn by driving. Maximizing driving ability is not important.

Would we have this conversation if you considered people to be good enough drivers? No.

I promoted reading history books...clearly I believe knowledge is important. Most scientific knowledge is not important for "wisdom".

Most knowledge isn't, but the critical pieces will vary and some of them are yet to be discovered.

No. It's an interesting subject. I just want to learn about it by driving and watching other people drive and getting verbal advice on driving. You want to understand the fuel injection system.

Biochemistry is there for the engineer (intentional implication). The benefits for the driver lies in understanding how the engine as a whole works and the consequences it has for the car.

I would go back to the music analogy. Do you truly think those questions about the effect of base or frequency on the brain are interesting and offer important insights? Clearly they are insights that you wouldn't get without the scientific method.

For the average person, the question might very well be enough with is it good music or not? For a musician, the next questions become more important. What makes this music good? And why does it vary from people to people?

Sure, for most people it's sufficient with the knowledge from books and the most critical facts coming from science, or specilizing on the facts important in your own field. That's not a good reason to scrap science in humanities though.