Science Is Nothing More Than

People Think That If You Are A Scientist You Have To Give Up That Joy Of Discovery, That Passion, That Sense Of The Great Romance Of Life. I Say Thats Completely Opposite Of The Truth.

I've Been Thinking About The Distorted View Of Science That Prevails In Our Culture. I've Been Wondering About This, Because Our Civilization Is Completely Dependent On Science And High Technology, Yet Most Of Us Are Alienated From Science.

We Are Living In A Society That Is Totally Dependent On Science And High Technology, And Yet Most Of Us Are Effectively Alienated And Excluded From Its Workings, From The Values Of Science, The Methods Of Science, And The Language Of Science. A Good Place To Start Would Be For As Many Of Us As Possible To Begin To Understand The Decision-making And The Basis For Those Decisions, And To Act Independently And Not Be Manipulated Into Thinking One Thing Or Another, But To Learn How To Think. That's What Science Does.

Science Is Nothing More Than A Neverending Search For The Truth.

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