Comments on: Science Progress, the Phrase and the Title http://scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ScienceUSblog » Blog Archive » Science Progress Magazine http://scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/comment-page-1/#comment-6008 ScienceUSblog » Blog Archive » Science Progress Magazine Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:35:00 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/#comment-6008 [...] can leverage innovation for the common good. Since its inception in the fall of 2007 (read the opening editorial), Science Progress has helped shape the conversation about our country’s investment in [...] [...] can leverage innovation for the common good. Since its inception in the fall of 2007 (read the opening editorial), Science Progress has helped shape the conversation about our country’s investment in [...]

]]> By: Joseph Weber http://scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/comment-page-1/#comment-5392 Joseph Weber Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:57:47 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/#comment-5392 I am glad to have stumbled onto the Science Progress website. I work daily as a physician, and nights as a printer resurrecting the ideas of Elbert Hubbard, a great writer from East Aurora, NY. Hubbard tried to show that knowledge, human understanding, economics, peace and science all fit together nicely, and could work for the betterment of mankind. These seem to be the goals of your center. I also plan to start a business incubator with a few twists: low-cost to the tenant, shared office help and with multidimmensional concepts. We should not only invent but we must also manufacture and educate. When we did all three, nobody could touch us. We still have the tools to make this happen again. I want to do my part. Joe Weber I am glad to have stumbled onto the Science Progress website. I work daily as a physician, and nights as a printer resurrecting the ideas of Elbert Hubbard, a great writer from East Aurora, NY. Hubbard tried to show that knowledge, human understanding, economics, peace and science all fit together nicely, and could work for the betterment of mankind. These seem to be the goals of your center. I also plan to start a business incubator with a few twists: low-cost to the tenant, shared office help and with multidimmensional concepts. We should not only invent but we must also manufacture and educate. When we did all three, nobody could touch us. We still have the tools to make this happen again. I want to do my part.
Joe Weber

]]> By: Al Avenoso http://scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Al Avenoso Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:23:14 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/#comment-59 You got right to the heart of the matter in your first paragraph: "...confidence in the possibility of improving the human condition, a possibility predicated on values of individual freedom, social equality, democratic solidarity, and reason as superior to dogma." The last phrase particularly struck home. I completed my undergraduate education at a Catholic University in 1964 and went on to graducate school in Zoology at the University of Florida. I was floored when essentiall the phrase "reason as superior to dogma" was used by the graduate student advisor. I took it to heart and never looked back. My career in science blossomed, and I hope so will your magazine. You got right to the heart of the matter in your first paragraph: “…confidence in the possibility of improving the human condition, a possibility predicated on values of individual freedom, social equality, democratic solidarity, and reason as superior to dogma.” The last phrase particularly struck home. I completed my undergraduate education at a Catholic University in 1964 and went on to graducate school in Zoology at the University of Florida. I was floored when essentiall the phrase “reason as superior to dogma” was used by the graduate student advisor. I took it to heart and never looked back. My career in science blossomed, and I hope so will your magazine.

]]> By: Clarence Langford http://scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Clarence Langford Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:36:54 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/#comment-34 So many scientific investigators find truth in understanding self, some like Mead, find the I and the me, and have a glimpse of the right and left brain activity, before stimulation of those areas by probes. The search for understanding has not yet begun. Freud found the Id, Ego, and Superego, but the Indians had discovered that thousands of years earlier with their, Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahman, theories,, what is sometimes seemed as not science, is, what is sometimes seen as science, is really politics posing as science,,, survival of the fittest, was a polical observation. Science would find that the fittest win battles, and the people who avoided the battles, survived... Until now,,, Gps, implants,, genetic engineering ,, those who have been on top because they fell for the survival of the fittest talk,, are out to prove they will dominate,, and as this whole theory is flawed, death will only lead to death,, reep what you sow. So many scientific investigators find truth in understanding self, some like Mead, find the I and the me, and have a glimpse of the right and left brain activity, before stimulation of those areas by probes. The search for understanding has not yet begun. Freud found the Id, Ego, and Superego, but the Indians had discovered that thousands of years earlier with their, Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahman, theories,, what is sometimes seemed as not science, is, what is sometimes seen as science, is really politics posing as science,,, survival of the fittest, was a polical observation. Science would find that the fittest win battles, and the people who avoided the battles, survived… Until now,,, Gps, implants,, genetic engineering ,, those who have been on top because they fell for the survival of the fittest talk,, are out to prove they will dominate,, and as this whole theory is flawed, death will only lead to death,, reep what you sow.

]]> By: Gwendoline Y. Fortune http://scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Gwendoline Y. Fortune Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:24:06 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/#comment-21 I have read--and will re-read this introduction. I am in essential agreement with the intent of "Science Progress." I am cautious on several issues. Taking the definition of science from "scientia as the search for knowledge," as my point of inquiry, I am concerned that including Hamilton's capitalism, westward expansion/indigeous people and, my experience with the comment a 19 year old self-taught computer technologist said on Thursday, that there is so much "junk" in Gates' computer system my computer slows rapidly. He said that the newest machine is faster, but it just "processes the 'junk' faster." I hope that being enamored of the possibilities of science does not blind this development to the "junk" that is as much a component of "progrss" as is the positive aspects. My proposition is that we must maintain rational-human (contradiction?) balance in the process of inquiry. I have read–and will re-read this introduction. I am in essential agreement with the intent of “Science Progress.” I am cautious on several issues. Taking the definition of science from “scientia as the search for knowledge,” as my point of inquiry, I am concerned that including Hamilton’s capitalism, westward expansion/indigeous people and, my experience with the comment a 19 year old self-taught computer technologist said on Thursday, that there is so much “junk” in Gates’ computer system my computer slows rapidly. He said that the newest machine is faster, but it just “processes the ‘junk’ faster.”

I hope that being enamored of the possibilities of science does not blind this development to the “junk” that is as much a component of “progrss” as is the positive aspects.

My proposition is that we must maintain rational-human (contradiction?) balance in the process of inquiry.

]]> By: Angelique M Reitsma http://scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Angelique M Reitsma Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:23:22 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2007/10/science-progress-the-phrase-and-the-title/#comment-15 Congratulations! Excellent intro to what appears to be an exciting and important new magazine. I am greatly looking forward to its future publications, and will (try to) keep a critical eye and an honest response. AMR Congratulations! Excellent intro to what appears to be an exciting and important new magazine. I am greatly looking forward to its future publications, and will (try to) keep a critical eye and an honest response.
AMR

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