Why Should Anyone Become a Scientist? The Ideal of Science and Its Importance

Lewyn Li
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
J. Chem. Educ., 1999, 76 (1), p 20
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p20
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999

Abstract

Why is it important to us and our world? And why is it so rarely spoken of by the scientists themselves? As we will see, the answers to these questions have significant implications on how we should train a scientist.

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Graduate Education / Research

Keywords (Domain):

History / Philosophy

Keywords (Feature):

Commentary

Keywords (Subject):

Ethics
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