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A Century of IdeasScience as an Adventure

A Century of Ideas: Science as an Adventure [Many of our fellow citizens have an image of science and of scientists we would find hard to recognize: They tend to think of science as something rigid, firm and soulless (and generally dull) created in an objective and often solitary manner by cool passionless persons. While they might be willing to see some nobility in ‘pure’ science, this reluctant generosity does usually not extend to its ‘dirty’ offshoot, technology. Absurd as all this picture looks to us, it is, I think, worth examining how these dangerous misconceptions arise and what might be done to improve the understanding of what we do.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Century of IdeasScience as an Adventure

Part of the Fundamental Theories of Physics Book Series (volume 149)
Editors: Sidharth, B. G.
Bondi, Hermann
A Century of Ideas — Jan 1, 2008
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Netherlands 2008
ISBN
978-1-4020-4359-8
Pages
13 –18
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-4360-4_2
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Abstract

[Many of our fellow citizens have an image of science and of scientists we would find hard to recognize: They tend to think of science as something rigid, firm and soulless (and generally dull) created in an objective and often solitary manner by cool passionless persons. While they might be willing to see some nobility in ‘pure’ science, this reluctant generosity does usually not extend to its ‘dirty’ offshoot, technology. Absurd as all this picture looks to us, it is, I think, worth examining how these dangerous misconceptions arise and what might be done to improve the understanding of what we do.]

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: Fellow Citizen; Royal Astronomical Society; Stellar Parallax; Empirical Disproof; Aberration Angle

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