• Question: how would the world be without science?

    Asked by to Edward, Ian, Mathew, Naomi, sakshisharda on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Ian Stephenson

      Ian Stephenson answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      You can’t not do science.

      When you bake a cake you’re doing chemistry. When you throw a ball you’re doing physics.

      When you learnt how to throw and catch a ball you were doing experiments. How hard do I need to throw it to make it go there? What if the ball is heavier/lighter? How does the wind affect it?

      Science is just doing that in a slightly more organised fashion

    • Photo: Sakshi Sharda

      Sakshi Sharda answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I completely agree with Ian on this. Science is everywhere. Even if we are not doing that, it’s all around us all the time. While science is about inventions and discoveries it’s also about why things happen the way they do and understanding that. Gravity for instance, we may not study it, but it’s there! Science is the basis on which the world and the universe runs, it’s the very fabric of nature that makes everything.

    • Photo: Naomi Osborne

      Naomi Osborne answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      We wouldn’t be having this conversation for starters!

      We’d be foraging for food and cooking it over a fire, we wouldn’t be able to treat any disease and we wouldn’t have any technology of any kind – It’s hard to imagine a world without science!

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