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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477461" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Science is Unscientific</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Professor rose from his chair.<br>He moved the book to the middle <br>Of the table as he stood up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Now, listen! " he said in an amicable voice.<br>"Science prides itself in being factual, <br>objective, precise, unbiased, detached <br>and verifiable, free from introversion, <br>a way of knowing things without added colours<br>and portraying accurately the physical world<br>in its own light".</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Turtle was sipping his ginger ale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Oh, this description of science is nothing<br>but a myth", he said. "As I see it, <br>even the most magnificent accomplishments <br>of science involve emotions, <br>an individual sense of wonder and curiosity, <br>the psychological experience of the rapturous<br>and the mystical. Consequently, <br>a paradoxical and built in property<br>of science concerns<br>its own unscientific disposition. <br>And therefore, in my opinion, <br>science is thoroughly unscientific." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Nonsense", the professor objected. <br>"If science were really unscientific, <br>as you claim, it could not produce<br>nuclear energy, airplanes, or computers.<br>And it could not put <br>astronauts on the moon". </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Well, I indeed never stop to wonder, <br>How is it possible that with so little knowledge<br>humans can accomplish so much? "<br>the Turtle said. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then he added: <br>"But, you should not<br>confuse science with technology".</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>"I don't get your point", the Professor said, <br>"because you still did not provide me with<br>a good justification of your negative view<br>of science".</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Look! Science stands on very shaky<br>theoretical foundations", the Turtle explained.<br>This is so due to its reduction<br>of the concrete whole <br>to incomplete abstractions. Ironically, <br>the more scientific science tries to be, <br>the less scientific it becomes. <br>Science is rational and logical but the<br>universe, which it investigates is not. <br>We cannot separate ourselves <br>from the world outside. <br>Therefore, an objective investigation <br>of actuality ought to incorporate <br>the subjective experience.<br>The depiction of reality must be total.<br>Otherwise it cannot be truly scientific. <br>Mind you, ignoring the dominant <br>subjective realm of existence does not<br>make the world more objective.<br>Imagine, for example, a computer<br>that tries to understand<br>the human world without understanding<br>the human mind and human emotions".</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A moment of silence ensued.<br>The Professor sank into his thoughts.<br>The Turtle took another sip<br>from the ginger ale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I'm not sure", <br>the Professor said eventually, <br>"that it would be a good thing <br>evolving a computer to a level<br>in which it would understand <br>such human qualities as humour, concern, <br>loyalty, compassion, love and anger.<br>I wonder if such a cybernetic device<br>would be our servant or our master."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477461" data-title="Science is Unscientific de Paul Hartal" data-description="The Professor rose from his chair. He moved the book to the middle Of the table as he stood up. "Now, listen! " he said in an amicable voice. "Science prides itself in being factual, objective, precise, unbiased, detached and ve..."></div> </div> </div>
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