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In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," Plato asks us to imagine people chained in a dark cave watching the shadows of puppets. The people chained believe that the puppets are real. However, there was one person who broke free of the chains and followed a path and discovered the real animals. I feel that discovering science is a lot like "The Allegory of the Cave." People are ignorant and just accept what they are told. However, those that are interested in science do not accept truth until they have experimented and proved that what they are looking at is really the truth.
I really liked "Put a little Science in Your Life" article. I thought Greene made a good point about people slowly losing the desire to learn. I feel like we start out outside of the cave, but we slowly travel deeper and deeper into the cave until we become chained to the walls and accept whatever explanations are thrown at us. I don't think this is the right way to live, Greene says "science is a way of life" and I agree with him. I think that we should strive to learn as much about the world that we live in, because without science there is no life.