Friday, November 11, 2011

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge. Science has evolved over the years and it still is, it always will. Man will always have an urge to discover, explore, confirm, dis-confirm tests/experiments, because everything they do really has an impact on how we live thanks to science, and how it applies on our everyday lives. For example, recently there has been a scientist that found a way how to tunr any color eye into blue eyes. They are also finding cures for disease that before were not tried nor tested, and also when earthquakes or any other natural disastear happens, we have science to tell us why or how a disaster had occured. If people were not interested in any of these topics, they are also not interested in science. But people who love to explore they will use science to test and experiment various things. The seed of science is a metaphor for the mans curiousty itself. Curiousity is how science starts, you are interested in something and you want to find the answer/solution to it, you just apply science; that is only the beginning that is why they are reffering to it as "seed" it later grows into something bigger, you gain understanding and you find the answers and solutions. I think this quote is describing how science starts, it starts by ondering and that is only a beginnging.

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