Issue40 冲刺小组第三次作业

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I strongly agree with the speaker’s broad assertion that researchers and scholars should pay more attention to the territory that they are interested in which is not break the moral and law. However, we should be circumspect about research whose objectives are too vague.

I concede that the speaker is on the correct philosophical side of this issue. After all, research is the exploration of the unknown for true answers to our questions; research is also the chief means by which we humans attempt to satisfy our craving to understand ourselves and the world around us. As the reasons above, we should support to the scholars who are interested in exploring one territory. Mostly because interest is the best teacher and interest is the impulse of research. Such as Ferrari who is the founder of his cars and enterprise, because he loves the car, so he builds the first racing car and run the Ferrari company after it, without the enjoyment that he receives from the car, may be we will lose the most beautiful and the most quickly cars in the world.

Secondly, if research is to be of any value it must explore uncharted and unpredictable territory which means even the scientists are also not very sure what they will discover, may be the discovery comes out just by accident. Such as Mrs. Curie, who did not prepared but discovery the element of radium by accident; Mendeleev is also this person who is mostly like to discover the circular list of the element (元素周期表不知道是不是这样拼的？), and he found a snake gnaw its tail which like a cirque in his dreams, after that, the circular list of the element have been discovered, from this story, we could find that without the interest, Mendeleev can not dream the particular snake, and the special list may be found many years later. In sum we should not forbidden the scientist to study the unknown field.

However, if there are a lot of field in society that need money and while we must invest in research irrespective of whether the results might be unusual, at the same time we should be circumspect about the research whose objectives are too vague and whose potential benefits are too speculative in particularly the investment is too big. Take the “STAR WARS” for example, this initiative was ill-conceived and largely a waste of taxpayer dollars, at the end of it, we saw rampant gang violence, AIDS epidemic and federal budget deficit. If some other scientists want to make researchers about it, should we invest them without deep thoughts?

At the end, I want to say that we should support to the scholars who are interest in investigation without think too much how many profits they will take even the investigation is very unusual or idiosyncratic, but if the researcher is too big and cost a large lot of money, we must think over deeply its objectives and benefits.