/sci/ - Science & Math

Science is an amazing tool and it would be an inmense absurdity, considering its great sucess, to try to debunk it. But there is a problem, when you, scientists, regard humanities and philosophy as minor meaningless fields. The essence of reality is an unattainable knowledge: reality can be descomposed to its fundamental bits and yet at that point we can only say "reality is reality, matter is matter". That way, there is always an intrinsic ineffable element constituting reality. We, humans, give value to this void substance through poetry that brings meaning. With poetry I refer to things like art, language and even science. You can't believe that fields, vectors or energy are real things: they are just metaphors (poetry) of the ineffable. With this I don't pretend to stablish impossible goals (explain the essence of reality) nor despise science (the power brought by the understanding of causal processes can't be ignored). I'm just making a call for humility, scientists are not touched by the hand of god, science has its limits.
Ignore this fact is a big problem of modern western society. We don't see science as tool but as the very foundation of reality. Some guys here believe that science will bring universal peace, that in the future our lives will be like the live of some Star Trek character and that the progress is inevitable ( these guys can't think on some greater value than "progress" ), while in fact, modern society is totally alienated and the progress race is a race toward self destruction.