In politics,
democracy is the most famous Greek idea that has come down to us. It is closely followed by Science (Scientia=
Knowledge originally). This most profitable area in human activity is
generally reckoned to have begun at
Ionia, the western fringe of Asia Minor
(Modern Turkey) and the islands of the coast.
According to Erwin Schrodinger there are three main reasons why science
began there.[Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics: ] First the region did not
belong to a powerful State, which are usually hostile to free thinking. Second,
Ionians were a sea faring people, interposed between east and west, with
strong trading links. Mercantile exchange
is always the principal force in the exchange of ideas, which often stem from the solving of practical
problems- navigation, means of transport, water supply, handicrafts techniques.
Third, the area was not “priest- ridden”: there was not , as in Babylon and Egypt a hereditary, privileged, priestly caste with a vested interest
in the status quo.
What is reality?
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In other words reality is a
lifeless piece of machinery, in which everything that occurs is the outcome of
inert, material atoms moving according to their nature. “No mind and no divinity intrude into this world….There is no room for purpose
or freedom” (Atomists-Greece 2000 BC)
Evaluation
When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advances to the state of science, whatever the matter may be.
-Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
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One could not be a successful scientist without relasing that in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and the mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull but also just stupid.
-James Watson
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