과학 명언 모음: What is science? Stuart Firestein: Real science is a revision in progress, always. It proceeds in fits and starts of ignorance. Isaac Asimov: Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature, it’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. Carl Sagan: Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Einstein: One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have. Freeman Dyson: All of science is uncertain and subject to revision. The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. Claude Lévi-Strauss: The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions. Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon: Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the natural world. Max Born: Science is not formal logic — it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art. It is true that this is a gift which can hardly be taught, but its growth can be encouraged in those who already possess it. E. O. Wilson: The heart of the scientific method is the reduction of perceived phenomena to fundamental, testable principles. The elegance, we can fairly say the beauty, of any particular scientific generalization is measured by its simplicity relative to the number of phenomena it can explain. Marie Curie: One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done… Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Richard Feynman The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Firestein: Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt. There is no surer way to screw up an experiment than to be certain of its outcome. And so what science is, is not what the philosophers have said it is, and certainly not what the teacher editions say it is. What it is, is a problem which I set for myself after I said I would give this talk. After some time, I was reminded of a little poem: A centipede was happy quite, until a toad in fun Said, “Pray, which leg comes after which?” This raised his doubts to such a pitch He fell distracted in the ditch Not knowing how to run. All my life, I have been doing science and known what it was, but what I have come to tell you–which foot comes after which–I am unable to do, and furthermore, I am worried by the analogy in the poem that when I go home I will no longer be able to do any research. Later in the speech, Feynman hones a more answer-like answer: [I]f you are going to teach people to make observations, you should show that something wonderful can come from them. I learned then what science was about: it was patience. If you looked, and you watched, and you paid attention, you got a great reward from it — although possibly not every time. Later: [Science] teaches the value of rational thought as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that the lessons are all true. He closes with a keen point for his audience of professional science educators: Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation. Science, then, necessitates a certain comfort with being wrong, a tolerance for the fear of failure — perhaps cultivating that capacity is an essential prerequisite not only for science but also for the basic appreciation of science. brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/06/what-is-science/
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