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Science
Science is observing your surroundings, collecting facts, and grouping all those facts under some general law. It is then, understanding those laws to explain the existence of the universe and man. Also, It is a way of discovering what is in the universe and how those things are related in the present, past, and future.
Why do I Pursue Science?
Learning for the sake of understanding the world better is what drives my intellectual pursuits. This desire to know pervades my daily life. I realized from an early age that I want to learn how the world around us works from can openers, light bulbs to cell phones, cars, and black holes. After realizing that physics gives us powerful tools to help us express our creativity, to see the world in new ways and then change it, I decided to major in physics.
Studying physics gives me great pleasure, it amazes me how far we have come in technology from a small pen to computers, and cancer fighting nanoboots. Physicists along with other scientist are always trying to invent something new to make the world a better place, and I would like to contribute to that and that’s why I pursue science.
Science, Pleasure, and Passion
Darwin and His Passion to Study:
Love of Science: “Unbound-patience in long reflecting over any subject industry in observing and collecting facts and a fair share of invention as well-as-common sense.”
In his autobiography Darwin describes himself as a humble and normal boy, who wasn’t interested in studying. He liked exploring his surroundings and collecting beetles. His passion of collecting beetles led him to dissect the insects and study them. He had zeal for understanding what interested him. He believed everything in nature is a result of some fixed laws and he wanted to understand those laws.
He wanted to understand the beginning of all the things in nature and try to explain God’s role in the nature creation. He accompanied FitzRoy as a naturalist on a voyage to South America. During his time on the voyage he spent a great deal of his time at the Galapagos Islands and collected species. Studying his collections led him to develop his theory of evolution, which stated that species descended from each other with modification due to natural selection.
Darwin’s discovery of evolution is a great example of what science is and why would one want to pursue science. Darwin was astonished by studying the different species of insects difference. He was always eager to collect beetles, which led him to investigate their anatomy. He collected facts about the species by his collections and organized his facts into a general law of evolution. For Darwin science was a desire to understand or explain whatever he observed and group all facts under some general laws.
Darwin, C., & Barlow, N. (1993). The autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882: With original omissions restored. New York: Norton.
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Frankenstein and Science
Victor:
“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desire to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature and mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my enquires were directed to the metaphysical, or in it’s highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.”
“Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!”
“In other studies you go as far as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.”
Victor from Marry Shelly’s novel Frankenstein was always curious to learn the mysteries of the world. He was curious to study human life and what causes death. Science for him was an unending process, he believed science is progressive and there’s always something new to discover. He wanted to gain glory by studying death and bringing the dead to life. He took control of the nature and created a monster. His pursuit of science was all about glory, passion and curiosity, and for his own pleasure.
Monster and Science:
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! it clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.”
Monster was created with no knowledge and innocent. His creator did not teach him anything and the society didn’t accept him. For him to understand his existence and his surrounding and society, he had to learn the science of letters.
Cartoon Retrieved October 26, 2016, from https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/c/curiosity.asp
Shelley, M. W., & Hindle, M. (2003). Frankenstein,. London: Penguin Books.
Science and God
Sor Junana Inez de la Cruz 1651-1695
“How without logic would I learn the general and particular methods in which Sacred Scripture is written?
How without physics the many natural questions regarding the nature of sacrificial animals, which symbolize so many of these things already stated (and more that exist)?
How without geometry could one measure the Holy Arc of Testament and the Sacred City of Jerusalem, whose mysterious measures make a cube with all its dimensions, and create that marvelously proportional distributions of all its parts?”
Sor Juana born in a small village in Mexico was the first feminist. She was self taught and had great inclination to study. she believed that her desire to study was fate not free will. She believed that she was put on Earth to be a learner.
She started learning at an early age and wanted to gain as much knowledge as she can. She wanted to understand the world and God’s role in it. She wanted to understand her relationship with God. For her liberal arts and science were a stepping stones toward to understand God’s words.
For her to understand the scripture and God’s words in the scripture one needs to understand all of his or her surroundings and study all the possible science and liberal arts.
Sor Juana is one example of why would someone pursue science. Humans are curious and want answers of God existance and his role in the world. Sor Juana wanted to understand God and his creation but for her to understand God’s words in the scripture she needs to study all the possible science.
“My only desire is to study so I will be less ignorant, for according to St.Augustine some things are learned in order to do something, as a means, and others are learned merely to know them, as an end itself.”
Kimball, B. A. (2010). The liberal arts tradition: A documentary history, Section V Humanist, Scholastic, and Sectarian Strains in the Colonial College, Juana Inez de la Cruz,"The Poet's Reply" (1691). Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Why does man Pursue Science?
Man is curious to discover the mysteries of nature. He seeks answers of how the universe works and wants to know the existence of God. Science lets man to overcome this curiosity.
Man is also selfish and want to please himself. He goes into science for pleasure and glory.
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Science and General Law
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
In the 17th century Bacon supported the idea of science being a method of generalizing specific observations into a broad idea. According to Bacon’s scientific method one needs to collect simple facts about how the world works and then use these facts to build a logical system.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
In the 18th century Sir Isaac Newton discovered three laws of motion. He took his observations and then put them in laws and then applied these laws to the entire universe. His laws helped explained the planetary orbits.
Science is about using general laws to understand how the universe works and these two people took their observations and put them in general laws to understand universe.
Todd M. Goehle’s HUMN 221 Lecture Power Points
Science and Universe
Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543)
During the 15th and 16th century, people, especially the church, believed that everything revolved around the earth. The church claimed that God created man and man lives on earth, thus the whole universe revolves around earth. Later, Nicholas Copernicus with his studies of the universe and astronomy discovered that the sun is at the center of the universe, not earth. Copernicus’ studies exemplify how science is used to understand man’s surroundings, and how the universe works. Thus Copernicus’ exploration of the universe, and then organizing his studies into a heliocentric theory, is an example of scientific endeavors.
Pictures from Todd M. Goehle’s HUMN 221 Lecture Power Points
Cook’s Voyage Kangaroo
James Cook in the late 18th century led an expedition in search of the southern continent. Accompanied by botanists, librarians, and artists, this voyage was centered around exploration and collecting facts about the surrounding land and species. While Hawkesworth, on the journey, walked around the ship and observed, he discovered a new animal that he described using descriptions of animals he had previous knowledge about: “......” The Kangaroo is a microcosm of scientific exploration because science is centered on the notion of discovery.
Science
Science is observing your surroundings, collecting facts, and grouping all those facts under some general law. It is then, understanding those laws to explain the existence of the universe and man. Also, It is a way of discovering what is in the universe and how those things are related in the present, past, and future.