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Collaborate for Science & Reason
This is a little formation to learn, share, and write Scientific and Philosophical Ideas. Here you could find beautiful and interactive blogs on the subjects of Science, Astronomy, Philosophy, Personal development, and Critical Thinking. Public engagement is one of the biggest priority we focus on. Without Your Ideas we are not complete. So its main program is to Create a public formation that promotes Science, Education and Philosophical Ideas that push us towards better understanding and HOPEFULLY better ability to make some reforms.
What Science Really IS ?
Science is not simply a discussion about the facts and details of the physical World. Its a way of thinking, a way of evaluating Ideas. In the Words of Isaac Asimov :
Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature, it’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match."
Pro Brian Greene
When Kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilisation will jump to the next level.
Carl Sagan echoed the same sentiments when he remarked :
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Its primary tools are the scientific method, logic, and reason. It is in that sense that we are not constrained to think of Science as simply a sum total of work in the academic discipline.
Why Curiosity Matters?
"The scientific way of thinking, questioning.. some delicate mix of creative encouragement of new ideas and the most rigorous and skeptical scrutiny of new and old ideas, that is the path to the future, not just for science but for all human institutions. We have to be willing to challenge because we are in desperate need of change", Carl Sagan said this in one of his interviews. Creativity & Curiosity matters when it comes to real Science. The playful investigation of nature has immense value, irrespective of the outcome. Einstein Once said..
The Cosmos is Within Us
Imagination
The Cosmos is Within Us
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
It is Curiosity as to where we are and what we are. It is very much more exciting to discover that actually we are on a ball, that is almost insignificant in the vastness of space and there could be billions more out there, perhaps filled with Life forms. This fascination, this excitement, this Curiosity to explore, to understand the universe beyond... drives us. Drives us to an extent that we spent our whole Lives dedicated to it. And that is what this formation is all About. We need people who want to Explore. We need people who value new ideas.
WE NEED
EXPLORERS
Nothing is more fatal to the progress of the Human mind than to presume that our views of science are ultimate, that our triumphs are complete, that there are no mysteries in nature, and that there are no new worlds to conquer.
Prof. Brian Cox quoted this response by Humphrey Devy in a talk. He said this more beautifully than perhaps anybody ever. We need Explorers like you.
Role of Wonder in Science
We think that Wonder is an essential part of the Scientific practice. When You look at a clear night sky, When You look at pictures from the Hubble Space telescope, What sense do you have in your mind? When you listen about the Human Genome project.. When the Large Hadron Collider's proton smashing is depicted as "recreating the moments of Creation"... What thought do you have in your mind first? A sensible person can Hardly ignore the fact that such utterly beautiful and Awe inspiring moments are something more than just some machines in a material World. They trigger a sense of Spirituality, A sense of Wonder which uplifts our perspective of the Universe.. Suddenly we feel a Connectivity to the Universe. As Carl Sagan wrote: "science is not only compatible with spirituality but a profound source of Spirituality".
SCIENCE
& WONDER
There is much more Wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
Biographer Richard Holmes locates in Wonder a bridge between the sentiments of the Romantic poets and that of their Scientific Contemporaries. As Sagan wrote when you look up on a clear night sky, you feel a sense of Awe and Wonder. Richard Feynman beautifully quoted :
A Knowledge of Science only adds to the excitement and mystery and Awe of a flower.
Acknowledging Wonder - Admitting it not just to make Science more attractive but into the very inception of Scientific Inquiry.
Philosophy of Life & Self Improvement
Socrates famously said "An unexamined life is not worth living". He said this at his trial for impiety and corrupting youth, for which he was subsequently Sentenced to death. as described in Plato's Apology.
PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
“The unexamined life is not worth living. Each life appears and lives, carrying the process of the exam naturally; it never stays unexamined since life is itself an exam, and has worth, as in its scope and dimension
Because Socrates never wrote anything in his life all that we know about him is from the Plato's Apology. So the phrase might mean different things for different people, but some scholars argue that the call to live examined lives follows from our nature as human beings. We are naturally directed by pleasure and pain. We are drawn to power, wealth and reputation, the sorts of values to which Athenians were drawn as well. Socrates’ call to live examined lives is not necessarily an insistence to reject all such motivations and inclinations but rather an injunction to appraise their true worth for the human soul. The purpose of the examined life is to reflect upon our everyday motivations and values and to subsequently inquire into what real worth, if any, they have. If they have no value or indeed are even harmful, it is upon us to pursue those things that are truly valuable.
Personally I think, NOT understanding the preciousness of life, from a purely rational or spiritual point of view is a really a waste of an unthinkably precious moment. Even from a purely Scientific point of view the possibility existence of an individual life is so slim that you could call yourself unthinkably lucky to be alive.
Although Science does not provide any answers to questions such as "What is the meaning of life" or is "there a purpose to all this", but what it can tell however is that how Special & Precious you are to even exist. How?? you can find here[1].
But when it comes to this Category, we will not only include scientific consensus to it but also, Philosophical & Experiential opinions & Claims and sometimes also critically analyse them.