• Question: do you know a lot about science

    Asked by clairejane to Upul, Phil, Ian, Derek, Daniel on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Derek Mann answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I know a lot about biomedical science but not science in general, I think that is true for most scientists, they tend to know a lot about a narrow area of science.

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      Daniel Mietchen answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      If you do anything in an intensive way over the span of multiple years, you get to know a lot about it.

      What you also get an idea about are the limits of that knowledge.

      Having said that, science is too broad a field for anyone to know “a lot” about it as a whole, including all the many subfields. As a biophysicist, moreover, I have had multiple dives into the depths of several subfields of biology, physics and neighbouring areas, but I am not sure whether that would be enough to claim that I know “a lot” about either of these field. And within biophysics, what I know is more or less common knowledge, so few biophysicists would consider what I know to be “a lot”.

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      Ian Sillett answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I know a fair amount about physics, my evolution knowledge is ok but in any other field I’m a complete beginner.

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