Why am I interested in how we do science?
From Biojustice
Why am I interested in how we do science?
- Personal reflection Jong Bhak -
It is because doing good research or doing anything good is not easy. I find myself often selfish, ignorant, stupid, and inconsiderate in performing tasks with other human beings. If someone has an innocent passion and confidence, things work out well usually regardless of the extraverification. However, with complicated value systems are clashing and absurd events happening around me, I feel it is hard to do good work persistently.
When I was young, I became to be interested in Aging as life seems full of wonderful things such as physics, mathematics, biochemistry, computers, birds, and dinosaurs. People seem to be beautiful and respectful. As I grow older, I became to have serious questions in the world. If I became to live for 500 years, how can I stand the world and people that seem so tainted, ugly, and contradictory.
100 years of our life can be too short to enjoy the beautiful Earth. At the same time, it will be a torture to survive the Earth for 100 years. It all depends on how we do our work, how we treat the world, and what kind of society/community we construct. Pure and beautiful academics working to find the beauty and the truth :-) of the universe is a myth, at least for now.
