Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Science

You seem to think that if you add all the circuits together you can get an iPhone. That's not true. The iPhone is an invention, not a scientific one but a cultural, a social one. You need all the science to put it together, but if nobody dreamed it up, no amount of research can create an iPhone.

Science can lead to discoveries but discoveries cannot change peoples lives unless someone dreams about using science to do so.

Science is a method of finding answers. It is inspiration that asks the questions.

Sometimes questions are answered by other fields, such as Maths. Maths knowledge is created by mathematicians who imagine mathematical hypothesis and proof them using mathematical logic, many of which can only be proven using even more mathematics. There is no science (experiments) here.

Another is in the field of literature. For example, the Korean Hangul alphabet was created with the inspiration of ying and yang. Without the Korean alphabet, Korea would not have a distinctly Korean identity and language which created the basis for Korean communication and literature.



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