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Most people don't go into science in a completely calm, cool search for raw data. They go into it because they find it exciting and want to solve interesting th
by brobdingnagians 9y ago
Most people don't go into science in a completely calm, cool search for raw data. They go into it because they find it exciting and want to solve interesting things or discover "cool" things. Scientists aren't robots. The US went to the moon because it was an exciting challenge, it inspired generations of kids to become scientists. We could discover lots of meaningless facts about logic, but most people want to do something exciting, and the people who discover meaningless facts about logic do it because they think it is interesting and exciting to an extent. Spending money on something that could be exciting is better than paying bean counters to discover meaningless logical facts. Especial when the bean counters don't really find anything, either expected or unexpected.
- kerkeslager 9y ago> Most people don't go into science in a completely calm, cool search for raw data. They go into it because they find it exciting and want to solve interesting things or discover "cool" things. This is true, but as a great philosopher said, you can't always get what you want. If you search for the truth, a lot of it won't be "cool". Some of it will be cool of course: but if you prioritize coolness over truth, it might prevent you from discovering anything at all. A cool lie isn't a discovery.
- musage 9y agoThat reminded me of two quotes: > If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. -- C. S. Lewis > A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. -- Isaac Newton