Universe as home

Author: Stuart Kauffman
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: Science, especially natural science, one of the most important goals is to pursue the original driving force of science, or to pursue its impetus. At the same time, this spirit of pursuing science itself has become a basic impetus for social development and human progress. Science always seeks to discover and understand new phenomena in the objective world, study and master new laws, and is always relentlessly pursuing truth. Science is residential, rigorous, pragmatic, and at the same time, science is creative. One of the basic attitudes of science is skepticism, and one of the basic spirits of science is criticism. Indeed, scientific activities, especially those in natural science, are more fundamental in character than other human activities in their basic feature of continuous progress. Even when retreating in other aspects, science always progresses, even if slowly and arduously, which shows that natural scientific activities contain the progressive factors of humanity. Precisely in this sense, science can be called the impetus of human progress.
Science education, especially education in natural science, is an important factor in improving people's quality and is the pinnacle of modern education. Science education not only enables people to acquire the knowledge and skills needed for life and work but, more importantly, instills in them the scientific thinking, scientific spirit, scientific attitude, and scientific methods, fostering and cultivating non-biological instinctive wisdom and a non-innate soul. It can be said that without the education of science, it is merely cultivating belief, not education. Those who have not received scientific education can only be considered trained, not educated.
This book is a bold work. The author guarantees that readers who still retain their imagination after undergoing academic learning, or those readers who have not received such training, will benefit greatly from it and will be forever changed by this book.