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Asked by emzbarker to Suzie, Sheila, Rob, Geoff, Adam on 22 Mar 2011 in Categories: General.
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Suzie Sheehy answered on 21 Mar 2011:
I think science is important because without it we’d still be in the dark ages!
OK, really I think it’s important because it allows us to learn things about the world that we didn’t know before. Why is that important? Because it can change the way we think about ourselves, the world we live in, and influence the way we live.
Through science we’ve improved our lives beyond all recognition, increased our lifespan and learned to overcome problems that we never thought possible. We’ve made living our lives easier so that instead of having to spend all our time just doing the basic necessities like finding food and shelter, we can actually spend our time enjoying ourselves (!) and advancing society.
Everything in our modern world relies on science… I think that makes it crucial, not just important.
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Robert Simpson answered on 21 Mar 2011:
Science is the process by which we go from not knowing to knowing. Forget all the facts and the gadgets and the technology – science is about collecting the right evidence, in the right way, to help understand something – the scientific method. Scientists publish results so that others can start from where they left of and so progress is made.
Science has literally lifted us out of the darkness. What began as clever people just ‘inventing’ and playing about with interesting things has changed into a worldwide effort to know more, gradually and slowly improving the world as we go.
Sometimes politics gets in the way of science and sometimes scientists get in the way too – but people will always be people. Scientific inquiry is a way of investigating the world that has been so successful that I find it bizarre that anyone says they ‘hate’ science (something I’ve seen in IAS live chats a couple of times now). It has given us knowledge and the ability to change our world not just by blindly stabbing in the dark, but by purposefully and carefully learning more.
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Sheila Kanani answered on 22 Mar 2011:
Because everything is based on science and science tells us where we come from and why we are here!
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Adam Tuff answered on 22 Mar 2011:
Well for one, science brought you the internet – so we wouldn’t be talking right now if we didn’t have it! You’d have to do without your TV, your games consoles, your iPod, your computers, most of the things in your kitchen, aircraft, ships, cars – even things down to your clothes and a lot of what you eat! Science isn’t just about old men in a lab pouring test tubes into one and other – science develops technology, it improves medicine, it expands our knowledge – without it our life as we know it would cease!
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