Scientific Attitude

• Its an attitude that the scientist should possess…

• A set of attitude that students study science should possess…

Scientific Attitude• Curiosity and fascination• Determination• Open-mindedness• Acceptance of Results• Objectivity• Humility and Healthy Skepticism• Patience • Reflection• Empathy for human condition• Intellectual Honesty • Perseverance• Self-Confidence• Scientific Intuition• Aptitude for Serendipity• Ethics

Curiosity

• Always try to seek, inquire, discover.

Fascination

• It ensues with each discovery.

Isaac Newton

Determination

• Be persistent in your endeavors. Be firm and self-confident.

Alexander Graham Bell

Open mindedness• Open yourself to new ideas.

Do not be one sided.

Louise Pasteur

Acceptance of Results

• Consider failure as a step towards success because it gives you additional scientific information on what to avoid. Failure is a part of a continuum of research.

Objectivity

• Do not be influenced by anything but pertinent physical observations.

Humility

• Being modest and unassuming.

Skepticism

• Do not accept things blindly without questioning. Develop the doubting attitude unless presented with reliable data.

Patience

• Wait calmly for the result of the investigation since most scientific study takes time.

Reflection

• Being able to monitor and assess one’s behavior/action.

Empathy for human condition

Putting oneself in the position of

another person

Intellectual Honesty

• Be truthful with the all result. Manipulating results may cause misinterpretation of your work.

• Do not claim scientific discoveries of others.

Intellectual Honesty

Versus

Rosalind Elsie Franklin

Perseverance

• A good Scientist should not give up.

Albert Einstein Thomas Edison

Their life story later…

Self- Confidence

• A scientist is confident and ready to depend his work, especially if he knows that he is right.

Self- Confidence

Ferdinand Magellan

Scientific Intuition

• Scientist should have a gut feeling to intuitively predict that something will happen such as a disaster.

• This intuition is based on scientific training and understanding of scientific principles, unlike a fortune teller’s prediction based on tarot cards.

Aptitude for Serendipity

• Most scientific breakthroughs came out of serendipity. Serendipity means unexpectedly discovering or finding things. Below are some stories in which serendipitous minds bring about accidental discoveries.

Aptitude for Serendipity

Spencer Silver Art Fry

Aptitude for Serendipity

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Aptitude for Serendipity

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Ethics

• Scientists’ work should be guided by some moral codes.

The Values of Science

Science can be used to solve problems, but when misused, it can cause serious problem.

“SMALL knowledge is DANGEROUS…”

The Values of Science

Dr. James Orbinski received the Nobel Prize in 1999 on behalf of a group of Doctors without Borders, he pledged that he was going to use the prize money to launch a global network and engage a public private partnership among the academe, hospitals and research laboratories. He wanted to developed low-cost drugs for diseases affecting many people in poor counties. The goal of the initiative was to save lives and not to make money.

The Values of Science

Weapon of Mass Destruction:

“I made one great mistake in my life…when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.”

-Albert Einstein

The Values of ScienceCloning:• Will humans be cloned? Some have claimed they have cloned

humans, but later denied doing so. Science requires ethical considerations. Experiments involving living organisms usually generate bioethical issue and touch on ideas of what is right and wrong. Using the knowledge from science should be guided by wisdom, conscience, humanity.

Inspired by these scientists

Albert Einstein:

He is a dyslexic. His teacher told that he would never amount to anything, saying he was “a lazy dog who never bothered about mathematics at all.” From an early age, he disliked people telling him what to do and doing things just like everybody else.

Inspired by these scientists

Hating his schoolwork, he soon found an interest in algebra books, which a family friend give him. In 1894, he was expelled from school for rebelling against his teacher.

Einstein’s important works includes theory of relativity and his famous formula E=mc2.

Inspired by these scientists

Isaac Newton:He is known for his laws on gravitation and motion, was not interested in the lessons being taught in school. His grades were also not that impressive. He was more interested in studying how the world works.

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Isaac Newton sitting under a tree when he saw an apple fall to the ground. While the authenticity of the details of the story is often questioned, it is likely that he indeed observed many objects falling which prompted him to ask many questions, why did the apple fall from the tree?

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What makes things fall? Can anything stop things from falling? Are the sun, moon, and stars falling? Why don’t they ever hit the ground? Newton spent many years answering these questions by thinking and doing experiments. He later on formulated the law of the universal gravitation. According to this law, everything pulls everything else to itself with a force called gravity.

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Thomas Alva Edison:

He was forced to leave school because he was not good in mathematics and he asked many question. He would not accept everything the teacher would say without testing it and seeing it for himself.

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Edison was homeschooled by his mother. He is also a dyslexic and a deaf.

He invented many electrical device.

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Thomas Alva Edison conducted more than 10 000 failed experiments. Edison, however, did not give up, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10 000 ways that won’t work.” His positive attitude towards failure eventually led him to success.

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Stephen Hawking:

He is paralyzed and the computer talk for him. But his disability did not stop him to explain the secret behind the Big Bang Theory and revolutionized physics.

Inspired by these scientists

Leonardo Da Vinci:

He wasn’t able to speak until the age of eight. But change the perception of art, science and inventions.