Observation In The Sick Lion

The importance of observation That why there are only a few wise men and celebrities in the world confuses me all the time. Recently, it has been appearing to be clear after I read The Sick Lion. I draw a conclusion that is the importance of observation.
What the story tells about? A lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned to his den, lying down there, and pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known. Therefore, the beasts paid a visit to him and came one by one to his den without any guard, where the lion devoured them without any efforts. The fox, having realized the trick of the lion, for many of the beasts had disappeared in succession, stood on the outside of the cave, at a respectful distance, and refused the lion’s request to enter within to talk with him, and said in a high voice, “I notice there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning.’’ Needless to say, it’s the acute observation that keeps …show more content…
In the thousand years’ history of science and technology, no wonder that many discoveries and laws in academic result from the ancestors’ careful observation in their daily life or in nature. For many people, they might never pay attention to the phenomenon that when they pull out the plug in the bathroom, water always rotates anticlockwise, but don’t want to figure out the reason at all. However, Professor Shapiro, Department of mechanical engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, acutely noticed the interesting phenomenon and was greatly curious about it so that he made an experiment, remorselessly exploring the mystery. It’s not an accident, but regular, connecting with the Earth’s Rotation, anticlockwise rotation in the Northern Hemisphere, counter to the Southern Hemisphere, It’s the observation that Shapiro discovered the natural