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4、"No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study."
The speaker asserts that no field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study. In my opinion, I fundamentally agree with the speaker that the development of one certain area, whether artistic or scientific, tightly associates with the contribution of other fields. However, utilizing immature experience and knowledge from other fields is probable to produce negative effects and even result in disasters to us human beings.
To begin with, as is well known that knowledge is a complicated network composed of myriads of subjects which interconnect with each other, through making good use of the knowledge and technology from outsider can one certain area achieve a huge progress. This is true especially among various scientific fields. A classical case in point refers to the discovery of double helical structure of DNA by four scientists coming from four different fields. So as to predict the structure of DNA, they launched a range of chemical, physical and biological experiment and finally testified it. It is the interaction of diverse scientific areas that bring about a tremendous advancement in exploring the mystery of life and opens up a brand new time of modern biology. Not only does the interaction of various disciplines exist among scientific areas, but it also appears between art and science. Here is an instance that is convincing. Leonardo Da Vinci applied the knowledge of anatomy and mathematics to accomplish “Vitruvian Man”, one of the most celebrated artistic works throughout the entire anthropic history. Without profound comprehension and conversance of anatomy and mathematics, it is unlikely for Leonardo Da Vinci to create such an inestimable work which is greatly honored and praised by descendants. Therefore, it goes without saying that exertion of the knowledge and technology from other relative realms can make more valuable contributions.
Furthermore, the perspectives from outside disciplines also perform a pivotal role in inspiring and instructing by the means of guiding a correct direction and providing fresh ideas. For example, as is so often pointed, all the scientific realms are established upon the basis of philosophy. Philosophical perspectives contain suspicious spirit, analytical and summary methods, all of which have been applied to scientific fields. Without suspicious spirit, there is no emergency of Einstein’s relativity theory contradictory with Newton’s Law; without analytical method, there is no formulation and principle generalized relying on analysis; without summary methods, there is no conclusion drew according to various phenomena or innumerable results of experiment. The thoughts of philosophy serve as a compass to steer scientific fields a right path to evolution. Thereby, borrowing the idea from other areas to address problem sometimes can be more efficacious to work out a solution.
Nevertheless, not all the knowledge and experience from outsider is beneficial. The manifestation of my point is that immature knowledge and experience from other areas may even cause more serious consequence far beyond our imagination. In the year of 1947, Sweden chemist invented a kind of pesticide called DDT in short, which made him win the Nobel Prize. From that time on. People began to use DDT in a host of fields such as agriculture and medicine owing to its powerful virtue to kill pests. After a few decades, in the light of the universal utilization of DDT for ages, the quantity of DDT in the natural environment has accumulatively reached considerably high, which gives rises to the deaths of many animals and destructs the balance of global ecological system. From what I have discussed above, it is obviously that the harm of using immature knowledge and experience from other areas should not be underestimated.
In sum, the interplay among various fields functions as synergy that accelerates the development of each of them. However, utilizing knowledge and experience from other fields might be tempting to lead to negative effects. Therefore, our attitude toward it should be circumspect and the application of knowledge and experience from other fields should be carried out under a full-scale evaluation.
[ 本帖最后由 westlife007_hu 于 2006-12-28 23:12 编辑 ] |
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