being late to work or finding your car keys because, well, jobs and cars wouldn’t exist.
You would be living in a cave or a rudimentary built shelter, at best, wondering whether
you’ll be able to hunt something for your next meal, or get killed and become some wild
animal’s next feast in the process. The moment that early humans decided to take action
into securing their survival marked the birth of science, as that’s the moment when they
started asking themselves two vital questions about the world surrounding them: “How?”
and “Why?”. Basically, that’s exactly what science is about: understanding how things
work and why, and the answers science gave us so far allowed us to survive, ensure our
survival and improve our lifestyle in the process, so I don’t think it’s exaggerated to say
that science is the most important element of our existence. If you want a proof of just
how awesome science is, check out this online course on geology and you will learn about
the origins of our planet, how it was formed and why it is in the form we know it today –
starting from billions of years ago, all the way up to the present day.
When they hear the term “science”, a lot of people usually imagine some guy
wearing a lab coat and safety glasses, operating some high-tech machinery or mixing
some funny-looking substances; in fact, science can be a lot simpler than that. Science is
actually not something that’s strictly happening into a laboratory, but rather everything
that follows a certain pattern, and can be replicated if some conditions are met. Throwing
a rock up, just to see it fall down to the ground can be considered science, as the rock will
always fall down, thus demonstrating that gravity is present, and that it works. The bigger
misconception is that you have to understand how it all works in order to take advantage
of it – this couldn’t be falser. Just think about it this way: you may not know much about
electricity or electronics, but you know that if your TV is plugged into the power socket,
once you push the power button on the remote, it will turn on. How do you know that?
It’s simple – because you’ve done it over and over again, with the same results. But
science gave us much more than non-stop television.
Humans are curious creatures and, while, at first, they only tried to figure out how
the most basic things needed for their survival worked, once their tomorrows were no
longer at stake, they started becoming interested into deciphering the many unknowns
around them. They started paying attention to things they had close by, as well as to things
that were far out of their reach at the time, such as the stars. Just from looking at the night
sky, two branches of science that still intrigue us today appeared: astronomy and
astrology. You can check out this blog post to learn more about astronomy and astrology,
and how these centuries-old sciences impact our existence. Curiosity and thirst for
knowledge lead to the apparition of multiple branches of science, but all these can be
grouped in two big groups: natural sciences and social sciences. While the first group of
sciences focused on discovering as much as possible about our planet, the latter focused
on studying its inhabitants. Today, each of these groups contains a dozen other sub-
genres, and with every major breakthrough, new sub-genres appear.
One of the most important things science gave us was security – we figured out
how to take care of our physiological needs, as well as our physical needs. Having
something to eat the next day, a place to be safe and treatment for a sickness became
normal aspects of our lives, and with these basic needs fulfilled, we were free to
concentrate on learning even more. We made the most out of science by initially trying
to understand how things worked, and then making them work to our advantage; the result
is that, besides offering us what we needed, science allowed us to create what we wanted.
Even more important than security is self-awareness. Science allowed us to understand
how things work, but also how to make things happen. Social sciences made us
understand that, if we want to survive, we need to work together in an organized matter.
This is what led to the apparition of the economic system, the political systems and the
education system.
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
