Rossetti Dantis Amore

Rossetti Dantis AmoreRossetti Sybilla PalmiferaRossetti La Bella ManoRossetti La Donna della Finestra
The distortion and suppression of science is dangerous, and not just because it means that public money gets wasted on programs, like abstinence-only sex “education” schemes, that do not work. It is dangerous because it is an assault on science itself, a method of thought and inquiry on which our modern civilization is based and which has been hugely successful as a way of acquiring knowledge that lets us transform our lives and the world around us. In many has been the dominant force — for good and ill — that has transformed human lives over the past two centuries.
In schoolsoften taught as a body of knowledge — a set of facts and equations. But all that is just a consequence of scientific activity.
is something else, something both more profound and less tangible. It is an attitude, a stance towards measuring, evaluating and describing the world that is based on skepticism, investigation and evidence. The hallmark is curiosity; the aim, to see the world as it is. This is not an attitude restricted to scientists, but it is, I think, more common among them. And it is not something taught so much as acquired during a training in research or by keeping company with scientists.