Claim:Researchers should not limit their investigations to only those areas in which they expect to discover something that has an immediate practical application.
Reason : It is impossible to predict the outcome of a line of research with any certainty.
I partly agree with the claim and the reason provided broached by the writer.Under some circumstance, it is extremely hard to predict an outcome of any certainty of a line of research due to the undeniable fact that scientific is inherently unpredictable.Then it would likely lead to contradtion between the outcome and the expectation they considered before if they limit their investigations to only those areas in which they expect to discover something useful.Here is an excellent example that support my viewpoint.
The investigation toward aerodynamics in the early days has been focused on the inviscous flow , and a huge number of famous sciencists who devout they rest of life on this area thought it could be a pragmatic result in the near future.While,paradoxically ,it turns out to be little of function , because later researchers found out that the realistic flow has viscousity which couldn't be ommited.That fact above exemplify that the blindness in any scientfic area is pernicious ,which is difficult to be avoid.
What's more,because researcher limit the resource to the so called short-term practical project,some long-term meaningful projects of fantastic significance such as Launching to the Mars would be inevitably put aside.Anyway, the Mars project won't be fruitful even in the next century.But considering its magnitude ,the achievement of this project would solve the continuity of human species.Can it be considered in the last day of human lives on the earth? Of course not.And if such important long-term project is not quite welcomed by the mainstream of institution , the long-term goal such as continueity of human and other species on the earth would come to diminished.
But sometimes not all short-term and profitable research and investigation is unpredictable.If paying attention and resouces to the carefully checked ones , these projects would be vital to the economic condition of these research instituion.Because it would make the institution to kept on for the highly cost salaries of researchers and equippment.With better equippment,the reputation of the institution would be better and would attract a lot of excellent scientists.
To sum up,the researcher should decline those investigation which they expect to be have great valuble in short time,but if they are restrained by the finaicial condition, they should focus research on the well considered with careful inspection projects so as to strike a balance between the short-term goal and long-term goal.
1. fact that scientific (science) is inherently unpredictable 2. lead to contradtion (contradiction) between 3. example that support (supports) my viewpoint. 4. devout they (the) rest of life (their lives) on this area AND thought it could be a pragmatic result in the near future. 5. fact above exemplify (exemplifies) that 6. which is difficult to (NO be) avoid. 7. make sure not to leave a space between a comma and the word preceding it
little mistakes such as these are easy to fix. good luck
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发表于 2012-1-20 17:17:57
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