“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.” -Socrates
Is the scientific mind some how superior to the one that is not?
It seems that the subject of science is left to a mind that while it is capable of grasping large mathematical equations and complex scientific theories, it is a mind that struggles to apply the basic social skills to interact with the world they have mathematically figured out. As much of a generalization as that may be, it is comparable to a mind of people I associate myself that seem to quickly shy away at the very word: multiplication.
It would be like me saying that because I have a mind that understands some of the complexities and implications of interaction between humans that I somehow understand the whole world; including science. To me the world is too complex to divide it into ideas that can be summed up within itself. A building cannot not be built without the collaboration of a variety of minds: scientific and not. It requires the architect, the project manager, the janitor, marketing, the city’s approval…so on and so forth. Every specialty seems to leak its way into another specialty which then leaks its way into another which is evidence that the whole world is complex-ally (Brittnie word…haha) and immeasurably intertwined. Even those that we can trace are only traced so far before we lose sight of its effects.
But maybe this conclusion is meaningless because it is coming from just a person who readily admits they’re lack of understanding about a science of any kind. However, no matter who’s head a mind is beheld I find it small minded to conclude that any one group of people has all the answers to their specialty—be it religion, or science—without acknowledging the effects and importance of the other group …which thus requires me and them to acknowledge that we do not know everything. I cannot know everything about relationships just a s a scientist cannot know everything about science.
In other words, I have no idea what I’m talking about.
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