Matthew Ebalu

English 21003
08/31/2016
What is Science? review
George Owells article, What is Science? shared some comparison on what
people make science to look like versus what it actually should be. Owell emphasized
that for a long time, even up till now, the knowledge behind science is restricted to be
works done in the lab, or working with test tubes, or the use of scientific gadgets etc.
follows that a chemist or a physicist, as such, is politically more intelligent than a poet or
a lawyer, as such. And, in fact, there are already millions of people who do believe this.
The highlighted sentence, discusses that the general mindset of people think that people
who study science are thought to be smarter than most individual in other fields, like arts,
humanities, social sciences etc. Well, his article was against this ideology.
Owell thinks that science shouldnt be subjected to just one field of study, it
should be inclusive with other fields. Doing this, gives morality to scientists and the
works they do. He used the story of the dictator Hitler as an example. He elaborated that
if scientists didnt have a narrower way of thinking, that is, if they handled both scientific
problems and non-scientific problems the same way, that their minds wouldnt be limited
in following the monstrous doings of Hitler. He said science should be acquiring a
method. It should be a method that is used to solve any problem anyone meets, and not
just for piling up facts.
Citation
Owell, George. "What Is Science." (2012): n. pag. Web.