Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Science and its uncertainity

Science

What is science for me:- Science to me is coming up with new ideas and innovations to discover something that is yet to be discovered. Science gives us reasons for what and why things exists. The aim for science is to reveal what is visible to us so we can know in depth on what is around us. Curious people could be scientists. Science can never be certain. Discovering things by experiments but concluding what the experiment teaches us is never certain as it keeps changing the more experiments that are carried out over the span of time. This case study helped me develop my understand that science is a risky business as said in the case study 'Not only do you have to start your work by assuming the existence of wrongness, you must count on a very high probability their accomplishments,they tend to brag all over time, to anyone willing to listen.'

Science always raises a question for me 'does that mean what we know is never certain to be right and if we do know that why do we believe in what science teaches us even after knowing that science can never be certain. For example science told us that Earth is round but is it actually true because at first it was flat and we believed it. Today we believe earth is round. But is it still true? How can we rely on what is uncertain


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