Without Math / With Math
A thrown baseball panics without math, then calmly knows its parabolic trajectory with math.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2014-01-01-without-math-with-math/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Without Math] Baseball (on a loopy, chaotic path): "This is chaos! Where am I going?!"
[With Math] Baseball (on a smooth dotted parabola): "Ah, y(t) = −4.9t² + 6t + 2!"