issue4 [Jet小组]第七次作业。

benjamin07UID: 2310909

TOPIC: ISSUE4 - "No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study."
WORDS: 531          TIME: 上午 12:45:00          DATE: 2008-1-21

According to the title statement, the author states that no field of study can make significant progress unless knowledge and experience from outside of one particular field are applied and employed by outsiders. I fundamentally agree with the author, especially concerning about the field of physical science and interdisciplinary subjects, though there actually exists some kind of exceptions.

In the first place, in the realm of physical science, other fields of useful knowledge, valuable experiences and results can particularly be borrowed from, and thus applied to one particular field of research. The history of the discovery of elements, for instance, typically showed that the techniques and knowledge from other fields are especially essential and critical for the discovery and even invention of a new scientific result. Due to the use of the optics, the elements of Rb and Cs were discovered eventually; Scientists discovered heavy metal elements because of the invention of battery; and the discovery of the radioactive elements contributed to the application of the radioactivity theory. As the fact mentioned above, it illustrates that, in our process of research, it is necessary, even important, for us to apply and employ valuable theory and results of other fields into one particular research.

In the second place, with more and more interdisciplinary subjects becoming available, necessary and urgent, it requires that all fields of subjects should be connected and interacted each other, which is essential to our modern scientific research. History is replete with examples that successful scientists are too often good at more than two fields of knowledge, and attain great achievements by connecting them. In the field of computer science, designers of programmes are often excellent grasping the knowledge of physics, which can be quite helpful and essential in designing programmes. What is more, those who have received Nobel Prize in the field of economics are often famous and distinctive scholars in the field of mathematics, putting forward economic theory by combining the knowledge of mathematics and economy.

Admittedly, it is also true that some of innate creativity and imagination comes from the same field of subject. Newton, a famous physician, through his own perception and learning the phenomena and knowledge of physics, became conscious of great disciplines of our nature, thus raising the famous theory of Mechanical Laws, which is all due to his own original ideas in this single field. Another case in this point is that most of artists create works, to a large extent, depending on their creativities and imagination at a particular period of time. It is relatively impossible for them to refer to other fields of knowledge helping them obtain the ideas. The only way that they produce their works is to carefully and thoroughly observe what is happening in life.

In sum, from the above analysis, it is safe and convincing for me to draw the conclusion that if you want to make a significant progress, or even a big invention, you will have to apply other fields of knowledge and experience to your field of research, or you will probably accomplish little. However, it is also true that original and creative ideas can also appear without referring to other fields' knowledge, such as arts.

Yiwang8427UID: 2354240

谢谢分享啊，写的条理很清楚

ljc-dreamUID: 2166457

According to the title statement, the author states that no field of study can make significant progress unless knowledge and experience from outside of one particular field are applied and employed by outsiders (介词用得太多使得表达不够清楚unless knowledge and experience beyond one particular field are borrowed from outsiders) I fundamentally agree with the author, especially concerning about the field of physical science and interdisciplinary subjects, though there actually exists some kind of exceptions.

In the first place, in the realm of physical science, other fields of useful knowledge, valuable experiences and results can particularly be borrowed from, and thus applied to one particular field of research. The history of the discovery of elements, for instance, typically showed that the techniques and knowledge from other fields are especially essential and critical for the discovery and even invention of a new scientific result. Due to the use of the optics, the elements of Rb and Cs were discovered eventually; Scientists discovered heavy metal elements because of the invention of battery; and the discovery of the radioactive elements contributed to the application of the radioactivity theory. As the fact mentioned above, it illustrates that, in our process of research, it is necessary, even important, for us to apply and employ valuable theory (theories) and results of other fields into one particular research.

In the second place, with more and more interdisciplinary subjects becoming available, necessary and urgent, it requires that all fields of subjects should be connected and interacted ^ (with) each other, which is essential to our modern scientific research. History is replete with examples that successful scientists are often good at more than two fields of knowledge, and attain great achievements by connecting them. In the field of computer science, designers of programmes are often excellent grasping the knowledge of physics, which can be quite helpful and essential in designing programmes. What is more, those who have received Nobel Prize in the field of economics are often famous and distinctive scholars in the field of mathematics, putting forward economic theory by combining the knowledge of mathematics and economy. (这个例子很精彩！)

Admittedly, it is also true that some of innate creativity and imagination comes from the same field of subject. Newton, a famous physician, through his own perception and learning the phenomena and knowledge of physics, became conscious of great disciplines of our nature, thus raising the famous theory of Mechanical Laws, which is all due to his own original ideas in this single field. Another case in this point is that most of artists create works, to a large extent, depending on their creativities and imagination at a particular period of time. It is relatively impossible for them to refer to other fields of knowledge helping them obtain the ideas. The only way that they produce their works is to carefully and thoroughly observe what is happening in life. (to observe what is happening in life carefully and thoroughly).
In sum, from the above analysis, it is safe and convincing for me to draw the conclusion that if you want to make a significant progress, or even a big invention, you will have to apply other fields of knowledge and experience to your field of research (apply knowledge and experience from outsiders to your own field of research), or you will probably accomplish little. However, it is also true that original and creative ideas can also appear without referring to other fields' knowledge, such as arts.



文章采取折衷的观点，认为一方面对一些自然科学和交叉学科而言，利用其它领域的知识和经验有助于本学科的进步；另一方面在一些领域内独立探索也可以取得重大突破。优点在于实例较丰富，但论述力度不够，似乎应该对“利用其它领域的知识和经验对于本领域发展到底有哪些advantage”有所说明，比如说：带来新的理论、视角与方法（offer them new theories, perspectives and methods）；实现技术上的互补 (lead to complementary strength)；借鉴反思自身理论方法的不足 (to reflect and find out the limitation of its own theories through comparisons with outsiders)。在我看来，仅仅是举例说明，似乎还不够。


只是我这个人的看法，而且，我的修改也可能并不合适，请见谅。加油！

[ 本帖最后由 ljc-dream 于 2008-2-17 20:50 编辑 ]