<p>ahaha
I was insane before. I read a lot of books and realized I couldn’t stand biology - it’s too meticulous and the research most biologists do is demeaningly tedious (no offense to anyone who likes that kind of stuff)
I decided astrophysics is the science for me, so I applied (and got a likely letter from) to Rice, since they feed directly into NASA</p>
<p>Coincidentally, I also plan to start a yacht design and construction club there</p>
<p>oooh, interesting! </p>
<p>good luck :]</p>
<p>Numbers can predict the future. </p>
<p>Screw words!</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>surprised you remember me ahaha</p>
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<p>Haha, was it you that posted a thread with a pic of a boat-in-progress, asking if anyone else built boats for fun/competition? And we all said how that would be a cool hook for admissions. </p>
<p>Anyway, I’d erase words, just for the fun of not being able to adequately express myself.</p>
<p>Yes, it was. Sadly I had to pack up and move (just across town though lol, still took a month) and I haven’t had time to work much further on the boat (epoxy freezes much faster in the winter).</p>
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<p>Numbers must be labeled by words. Words is clearly more powerful.</p>
<p>Words are without a doubt more important. Words are more than just a means to express our thoughts, they are possibly the foundational basis for our higher reasoning. </p>
<p>Remember 1984? The advent of Newspeak from the totalitarian government was a deliberate method to suppress ideologies counter productive to the state. There is a debate in psychology whether language is something innate in us humans, as language seems to occur in all societies despite geographic isolation and size. Language may be a necessity for abstract thought itself. </p>
<p>Without numbers… that might be bad, but not TOO bad…</p>
<p>2001: A Space Odyssey is another book that shows how words are more important.</p>
<p>^^ someone once said that anyone who can’t add fractions is incapable of higher thought :)</p>
<p>i guess mathematics is itself a type of language.</p>
<p>And a person that can’t understand words is incapable of lower thought.</p>
<p>Numbers =) 10000 char. =)</p>
<p>Words, definitely. Words influence who you/other people are. Society could function without too much use of numbers, but not without language. </p>
<p>Besides, numbers are a type of word.</p>
<p>It is true that words are pretty much essential, but math and numbers are the language of physics…and I like physics 
But seriously, words ARE more important… (But I still like numbers better)</p>
<p>how could you ever keep numbers while erasing words?
how would you know what the numbers mean?</p>
<p>if you’re given a set of numbers with no information as to what those numbers represent/describe, then how are those numbers helpful to you at all?</p>
<p>just because you happen to like numbers better, that doesnt mean they are more significant
both, of course, are integral to society</p>
<p>but numbers are useless without words to explain them</p>
<p>words are the basis of communication. you cannot have a society without communication.</p>
<p>without #s, we would all probably revert back to some sort of pre-Homo sapien sapien.</p>
<p>but who cares? :D</p>
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<p>I know this was posted a long time ago but it irked me because it wasn’t true. Indians and Arabs had zero. The Meso-American culture that had zero was the Mayans, not the Aztecs. I really doubt that the Aztecs had much interest in mathematics.</p>
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<p>Ah, sorry, I just named the first american civ. I could think of because I knew it was one of them</p>
<p>Words. You can express more with them. And I can say one, two, three, etc.</p>
<p>Words are more powerful.
Example. YOU ARE REALLY UGLY AND YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS vs. 123456789</p>