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¿Qué tiene de especial la ciencia? | CuriosaMente | YouTubeToText
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What's special about science?
Knowledge can be of different types.
Knowing where the nearest store to your house is,
is empirical knowledge.
A herbal remedy is traditional knowledge.
There are even some who say that a divine being
can reveal knowledge to you.
But when it comes to distinguishing what's true
regardless of any circumstances or beliefs,
there's a special type of knowledge:
scientific knowledge.
But, what's special about science?
Science has not always been like we know it today.
Even though in ancient times, Aristotle and Hypatia
already investigated the the natural world,
it wasn't until the Middle Ages when Alhazen and Roger Bacon
proposed that, for achieving true knowledge
we need to start from evidence; not from ancient books.
During the Renaissance, Galileo got himself in big trouble
because his claims, based on observation and mathematics
contradicted prevailing beliefs.
The scientific method became important in the 17th century
thanks to people like the great Isaac Newton.
By the way, in those days they weren't called scientists,
but 'natural philosophers.'
The term "scientist" began to be used in the 19th Century.
But, what's so special about science?
That it's based on a method whose basis is
on one hand, empirical observation,
that is, what you can see,
touch, weight, measure or prove;
and also that it proposes explanations
based on logical reasoning.
Also, science is universal. An experiment made in Brazil
will yield the same results as one made in Switzerland
as long as it's made under the same conditions.
This allows the observation of regularities
and even the formulation of theories, explanations
and even discovering Laws of Nature.
Another characteristic that distinguishes science
is that it corrects itself.
It never arrives to definitive truths,
but only provisional explanations.
An honest scientist will never say: "This is an absolute truth."
Instead, he'll say: "This is true, as far as we know."
Because it is possible that in the future
evidence will emerge, improving or contradicting
current knowledge.
Science is not always neutral. It's created by humans
as part of a social culture and structure,
and those things modify each other.
Some have even used science as an excuse
to justify racism or exploitation,
or as a source of technologies that can harm human kind.
But it has also served for enhancing our health,
communication and mostly to spectacularly and
overwhelmingly enrich our conscience about ourselves
and the cosmos we're part of. It's because of these amazing
power that we could think science is entitled
only to a few special beings.
When we don't see them as crazy people
eager to destroy the world, we think of scientists
as extraordinary people; something like priests
who bring knowledge
down from that unusual world they live in.
We think that's not the case, the scientific thought
is at everybody's reach, as long as we tend
to 3 aptitudes:
Skepticism: it means to doubt. To not think something is true
just because an important person claims it is,
or because it's written on a famous book,
or because it has flamboyant words.
Doubt even of our videos!
Openness: the faculty to accept new evidence
even if they go against what we thought was true.
Accepting what we know is partial and that we can always be wrong.
And the most important one: Curiosity.
To keep asking ourselves why things happen all the time,
to develop our sense of awe and wonder
because our universe is wonderful and awesome.
So, science is not an alien, strange knowledge,
but an activity that you can practice!
You do it whenever you ask yourself something
and answer it by experimenting, observing,
thinking about logical explanations
and ending up with more questions!
CURIOSAMENTE
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