Thursday, 27 March 2014

Science and Uncertainity

This article says that "I cannot imagine a time when all our questions will do more than raise new questions" I understood this as a counterproductive statement to the exploration of the unknown by the collective mankind, in this this essence, recessive to science, as this is what I understand science to be. An exploration of the unknown. What extended my knowledge was that they said the whole process was like telling a story. One makes up a story and is curious whether it is true, so they design an experiment to prove it right. The inaccuracy of this is that sometimes when you want something to to be the truth, one has tendency to overlook barriers preventing this and to stretch the truth until its is so farfetched, in order to make that story validated. I would love for this article to explore different aspect of the slowing down and regulation of scientific progress, and the balance between using science to fuel revenues and whether this is more important than constantly changing perspectives which force the rest of the world in response, to deconstruct and reconstruct again fitting the new model.

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  1. Has your reading triggered connections with your experiences as a science student?

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