Monday, November 08, 2004

science?

the less you know, the more you discover.
scientific thinking is a philosophy.
philosophy is a social science.
but, most of the scientific theories were put forward by philosophers. so where does the boundary lie? is it the ability to question whats there? or think think of alternative ways of wht it could be? or jus to sit and look more deeply into what you know? does this make science happen? there seems to be a paradox here, as einstein seems to have come up with his theory because he knew less or developed slowly.relativity is hard to grasp. it involves us to imagine scenes that are hypothetical and so tests the highest and most profound logic that we can execute. isnt philosophy logic? so has modern science finally evolved to the position where it began... in the philosophy of it? or was it always like this? i doubt not, why then would newton have absolute and definite values for time. perhaps all contempories possess thoughts such as mine, its jus that this process is repeated, but with the ever evolving society, its reception is different. perhaps thats why einstein was more popular than gallileo. science today is just meant to help us discover science tomorrow. what is accepted depends on the social implications. so science and philosophy are almost the same thing, and they are related in that one determines the fate of the other.

also, sociology in terms of the devlopment or liberation of the mind has made people more open to new ideas and theories thus resulting in the popularity of modern science as compared to the past where galilioes philosophy encouraged scientific thinkin in a generation where no one thought, but just accepted.

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