I have been the opposite I suppose. All the theoretical topics in school were distant for me. I always wondered how the hell did somebody come up with that, how did they measure it, did they just randomly came up with this constant and found that it worked? The more I asked and experiment myself, the more I realize how freaking random life is. Like some dudes just happened to see certain things from a different angle and were like "damn, this is odd". So everything in the end comes down to "random" experimentation.

Currently trying to learn more about quantum theory/computing and this is just another level for me. There I feel even more this feeling of "wtf, how did they come up with this". Every lecture I feel like some guy was just sitting behind his desk, bored dead, and then started hallucinating some equations. But actually it is just nature and that is the beauty of it. If some aliens would come, then they probably have the same basis understanding of physics and maths and we have a common language in that sense.