/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8712133

that's just your opinion.

science has given us a lot, but also cost us a lot. in the emotional, eschatological, and psychological realms, the west has been wounded by science: it has become in many circles synonymous with 'not being a moron' that you reject the insubstantials of life, and the entire question of faith. but these are absolutely necessary. science is a tool - have we become the tool of science?

has science created more moral humans? more passionate humans? humans with greater intensity of spirit? humans that are more sincere and well adjusted? no. and understand when i say science, i am not condemning the child who is trying to understand why the water in the tub goes up when they get into it. i'm not condemning the people who came to science only after they had the wisdom to master another small piece of physical existence.

but i AM condemning those, who intelligent enough that they should know better, substitute for all things of spirit their sickly reductionist nihilism. They are not in this capacity scientists, they merely represent science as inquisitors, who do not grasp the origin of their own motives, who are driven by an emptiness that science can not fill. science exists successfully only when it is able to give power. if i can create an engine with your science, you are a true scientist. if i can only create neuroses with your conclusions, you are worse than useless.

we must remind science that it serves man, and that 'scientific progress' at the cost of human spirit or happiness or fulfillment is a cancerous ideal.