Twenty years later ,the woman could guess what the professor had in mind .He saw himself.

Twenty years later ,the woman could guess what the professor had in mind .He saw himself.
Twenty years later ,the woman could guess what the professor had in mind .He saw himself,perhaps,as inviting his students to start an exciting voyage into an unknown world invisible to the eye,which can be discovered only through scientific methods.But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even hear the invitation .She was just beginning to understand the world .And she believed that her firsthand experience could be the truth .The professor ,however,said that it was wrong .He was taking away her only tool for knowing and was providing her with no substitute ."I remember feeling small and frightened ," the woman says ,"and I did the only thing I could do.I dropped the course that afternoon ,and I haven't gone near science since