Science Research is Failing | Donald Sadoway | XPRIZE Insights
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Donald Sadoway talks about the need for a change in perspective in the science research community, from one focused on career building to one oriented toward service to society. XPRIZE Insights is a video series that highlights leading thinkers of our time. SUBSCRIBE! / @xprize
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great words
Too many academics is about "how do I build my career?"... that's our government's problem too. Maybe it's a symptom of a more widespread cultural deterioration...
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While this sounds great and all, much of science has no real applicability outside of science.
I'm studying astronomy, and researching into how degenerate matter comes into existence and how it effects stars and all that... has no real-life purpose except for understanding stellar evolution.
Science isn't, and shouldn't ever be only about helping the community, it needs to be about gaining knowledge for the human race so that maybe, someday in the future, someone can make use of that technology.
Science tells you how it works, everyone else figures out how to use it.
TheMohawkNinja tell that to a chemist/physicist, even quantum mechanics has a real impact on society
and i'm sure astrophysics has had real impact also.
TheMohawkNinja tell that to a chemist/physicist, even quantum mechanics has a real impact on society
and i'm sure astrophysics has had real impact also.
sidewaysfcs0718 I stated "much" not "all" of science.
You also have to understand that I am talking about the actual direct discovery of uses here. While chemists have actually come up with real uses for their work, probably more so than maybe even biology, when it comes to astrophysics, there have been very few, if any astrophysicists that have found real world applications for their research.
As for physicists, it's hard to say. Much of what they find ends up having practical uses discovered by engineers, I can't say how many times a physicist has found real world applications for their own work, by themselves. I would guess that in the past (i.e. Newton's time), physicists and engineers were probably fairly close together in-terms of theorizing ideas, and finding real world applications. However with modern physics, I would argue that it's far more likely the case that what physicists discover nowadays don't find real world applications until a pioneering engineer sees a use for it.