RESUME BUKU

ADVICE TO A YOUNG SCIENTIST

P.B. MEDAWAR
BAB I – VI
(IN ENGLISH)

NAMA : FAHREZA DELIAR R.

NIM : 19/448853/PPN/04468

MAGISTER FITOPATOLOGI
PASCASARJANA PERTANIAN
FAKULTAS PERTANIAN
UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA
YOGYAKARTA
2020
 This exploratory activity is called "research," and research is writer’s chief topic,
although it is only a small fraction of the multitude of scientific or science based activities,
which include scientific administration, scientific journalism which grows in importance with
science itself), the teaching of science, the supervision and often the execution of many
industrial procedures, especially in respect of drugs, prepared foods, machinery and other
manufactures, and textiles and materials generally. In science a beginner will certainly read
or be told "The scientist this" or "The scientist that". Obligative scientists must be very rare,
and most people who are in fact scientists could easily have been something else instead.
Whatever the motives that persuade anyone to pursue a career in scientific research, a
scientist must very much want to be one.
What about the motives for becoming a scientist in the first place? Different branches
of science call for rather different abilities, anyway, but after deriding the idea that there is
any such thing as the scientist, I must not speak of "science" as if it were a single species of
activity. Certainly very many scientists are not intellectuals. We cannot tell if the successful
prosecution of such an experiment genuinely portends a successful research career because
only they become scientists who don't find out. Graduate research and attendance at
conferences usually gives graduate students powers of judgment that they often wish they had
had before they embarked on their graduate work. In choosing topics for research and
departments to enlist in, a young scientist must beware of following fashion.
Old-fashioned scientists sometimes insist on the disciplinary value of a scientist's
making his own apparatus. To quantify is not to be a scientist, but goodness, it does help. It is
fun being a scientist, that's for sure though not for any reason that is thought to differentiate
women from men.
The postwar flowering of Japanese science and science-based industry has already
added great strength to science and technology throughout the world. Regional differences
are intrinsically unlikely for methodological reasons, and no experienced scientist seriously
believes that they exist. Scientists naturally want to be thought well of and, like other
professional men, would like their calling to be respected. Scientists should be on their guard,
though.
A young scientist working in an advancing field of research should certainly try to
identify the origin and growth of current opinions. Scientists sometimes feel a little aggrieved
that most ordinary folk are so little interested and impressed by their calling. There is no
reason why these truths should diminish a scientist's selfesteem or lessen his contentment
even exultation at being a scientist. Collaboration is a joy when it works, but many scientists
can and many do get on very well as loners. It is a lucky scientist who never has such bad
moments.
To be creative, scientists need libraries and laboratories and the company of other
scientists; certainly a quiet and untroubled life is a help. If a scientist were to cut off an ear,
no one would interpret such an action as evidence of an unhappy torment of creativity; nor
will a scientist be excused any bizarrerie, however extravagant, on the grounds that he is a
scientist, however brilliant. A lofty attitude to a scientist's pride of possession shows a sad
lack of human understanding. One of the most damaging forms of snobbism in science is that
which draws a class distinction between pure and applied science.