6. Biasbas, Cyber Gem Sept.

13, 2019
STS C1 Quiz No. 2

1. “What makes an outstanding scientist?”

Koichi Tanaka was just a simple and humble engineer who loved what he did, fame
and glory was not in his mind when he was making his research. An outstanding scientist
like Tanaka is not made with fame and glory or awards but is made by ones’ sincerity,
humbleness, passion, and love for what one does. Tanaka learned such attributes from his
parents and grandparents which become fruitful for him as he is now an outstanding
scientist. He even told a story how his continuous success started by exclaiming “Mottai-
nai” or “What a waste!” and not throwing the incorrect mixture.

In conclusion, awards and fame is not what makes a scientist outstanding. Being
sincere and passionate for what you’re doing in the field of science and technology is
enough to put you on the road to success. His accidental blunder was his stepping point to
recognition, but what truly made him an outstanding scientist is his heart and passion for
science and technology.

2. What are the subtle differences between science and arts, or between scientists and artists?

“It seems to me that the most important gift the sciences and the arts have to offer
each other is a recognition and synthesis of their different approaches to thinking, their
different ways of being in the world,” this excerpt from Lightman’s “A Tale of Two Loves”
gives the best possible answer there is.

Scientists and artists looks at the world with their own thinking and perspective.
Their viewpoint towards the world is what makes science and arts different. They describe
the world they live in through their eyes and describes it with their own tongue, by scientific
terms or by vivid imagery and metaphors.

3. What would be the result to scientists and artists when these differences come together?

“When these differences come together, often uneasily, we witness the full
complexity and the mystery, and ultimately the grandeur, of being human.” – Lightman

If a scientist uses vivid imagery to present new findings, he will be able to show
the world how beautiful it is. If an artist mixes sciences with his writings or art, he will be
able to show the complexity behind the beauty of it. If these things happen, we will be able
 to fully see the beauty of science and art. We will realize that being a human is such
grandeur because we can understand that behind a beautiful art lies an equally beautiful
science.

4. Is it possible to bridge the gap between science and arts? How?

To answer this, I reflected on the words of Nemenzo, “The gap among science,
mathematics, and the arts comes from a failure of imagination and our ability to build
bridges and communicate beyond the borders of our disciplines.” He stated that the gap is
due to the inability to properly bridge and communicate for these worlds.

With this, I concluded that it is possible to bridge the gap through proper education
and ending the fear for these worlds. To bridge the gap, we must realize that these worlds
are not different from each other and stop fearing these worlds. Fear is huge factor why a
gap exists, a student would refrain from science because of how a teacher presents science
as a complex and complicated path to understanding. However, if a teacher would show
how science is just a new way of exploring the world, then students will no longer fear it
but instead embrace it and use it with arts to look at the collective beauty of our world.

5. How is science and arts or scientist and artists the same?

Science and arts both shows the world from their viewpoint. But the two of them
are always present when looking at one thing. Nemenzo shows us that art is backed up by
mathematics and science, consequently, science can use arts to show its beauty. No matter
how they work alone, they’re still just the same; a perspective of the world we live in.

How innovative are you?

Whenever I see problems, I look at different angle of attack or different ways of

solving it, often refraining from costly or common solutions. One example of what I’ve
done lately is making a software from scratch that would automatically arrange and sort
the softcopy of my written outputs. This saves me a lot of time and effort especially when
in moments where time must be efficiently used or allocated. If I could make it better, then
I could probably even give this software for free to other students to help them.