It boils my blood when I see individuals becoming larger than the institutions themselves; the same institutions whose service they start off with, and in due course assume unsurmountable positions at least in their minds climbing on the small steps that the institutions offer at every corner.
While this is largely true of different arenas and streams viz. politics, sports, entertainment, and academia, disastrous it is when this disease afflicts those who are in the service of science. These moles by the virtue of a few degrees that they earn seem to be in the know of everything, and precisely at some point start acting Gods. While it is supremely beneficial for people doing science to be critical, cynical when required, and detailed what drives me up the wall is the fact these noble souls seem to reason out everything, and rationalize every known and unknown thing with our minuscule limits of reasoning. There exists nothing called "being in awe of nature", same nature which has an answer to every theory of ours and could unleash out fury with a latent smile. I am all for people advancing in science with newer pursuits adding a few material degrees to their names along the course of these pursuits. Science has progressed to a vast extent with contributions of endless number of such inquisitive souls, and will in future. No harm. But when they do not let an ocean as magnificent as science broaden their mental horizons, it is just not worth it.
Let us not even fool ourselves into thinking that we know all for we all are in the bigger picture mere moles.
While this is largely true of different arenas and streams viz. politics, sports, entertainment, and academia, disastrous it is when this disease afflicts those who are in the service of science. These moles by the virtue of a few degrees that they earn seem to be in the know of everything, and precisely at some point start acting Gods. While it is supremely beneficial for people doing science to be critical, cynical when required, and detailed what drives me up the wall is the fact these noble souls seem to reason out everything, and rationalize every known and unknown thing with our minuscule limits of reasoning. There exists nothing called "being in awe of nature", same nature which has an answer to every theory of ours and could unleash out fury with a latent smile. I am all for people advancing in science with newer pursuits adding a few material degrees to their names along the course of these pursuits. Science has progressed to a vast extent with contributions of endless number of such inquisitive souls, and will in future. No harm. But when they do not let an ocean as magnificent as science broaden their mental horizons, it is just not worth it.
Let us not even fool ourselves into thinking that we know all for we all are in the bigger picture mere moles.
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