Post by Admin on Mar 2, 2016 17:08:01 GMT
“Why should I learn science? What will I do with the science I learn at school? I do not want to take up a career in science.” Is a question I am often asked by the students I interact with. My answer to the question is “ Science is not a subject to learn, it is a way of life”.
Its science that opens up wider horizons of the world and allows us to create something new. Science has generated the knowledge that allows us to call a friend halfway around the world with a cell phone, vaccinate a baby against polio, build a skyscraper, and drive a car. It helps us answer important questions like which areas might be hit by a tsunami after an earthquake, how did the hole in the ozone layer form, how can we protect our crops from pests, and who were our evolutionary ancestors?
It gives us an opportunity to engage with the "mystery," as Albert Einstein called our attraction to the unknown:
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead …
It is this wonder that made Einstein think about relativity it made Rutherford come up with his model of the structure of atom.
Had it not been this wonder of Edison we would still lived in the dark without electricity not understood that we are nothing more than trillions of atoms assembled to create an intricate human body.
Science opens doors to the unknown it opens vistas beyond our imagination and helps us perceive what goes beyond our existing comprehension of the world as we see it now.Our view of the world depends on the technologies we have at hand.
Few years ago orbiting Mars did not seem possible, now human settlement of Mars is the next giant leap . Mars is the stepping stone of the human race on its voyage into the universe. Human settlement on Mars will aid our understanding of the origins of the solar system, the origins of life and our place in the universe.
It is this quest for knowing more, this desire for exploration and wonder that would inspire generations to believe that all things are possible, anything can be achieved.
Rachna Sharma
Its science that opens up wider horizons of the world and allows us to create something new. Science has generated the knowledge that allows us to call a friend halfway around the world with a cell phone, vaccinate a baby against polio, build a skyscraper, and drive a car. It helps us answer important questions like which areas might be hit by a tsunami after an earthquake, how did the hole in the ozone layer form, how can we protect our crops from pests, and who were our evolutionary ancestors?
It gives us an opportunity to engage with the "mystery," as Albert Einstein called our attraction to the unknown:
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead …
It is this wonder that made Einstein think about relativity it made Rutherford come up with his model of the structure of atom.
Had it not been this wonder of Edison we would still lived in the dark without electricity not understood that we are nothing more than trillions of atoms assembled to create an intricate human body.
Science opens doors to the unknown it opens vistas beyond our imagination and helps us perceive what goes beyond our existing comprehension of the world as we see it now.Our view of the world depends on the technologies we have at hand.
Few years ago orbiting Mars did not seem possible, now human settlement of Mars is the next giant leap . Mars is the stepping stone of the human race on its voyage into the universe. Human settlement on Mars will aid our understanding of the origins of the solar system, the origins of life and our place in the universe.
It is this quest for knowing more, this desire for exploration and wonder that would inspire generations to believe that all things are possible, anything can be achieved.
Rachna Sharma