Answer 1:
Scientists are important for the world because
they help people understand the way the world
works in very specific ways. Human beings have
spent a lot of time figuring out how to stay alive
and be happy, and science has been a powerful tool
for staying alive, though it doesn't always make
us happy. Science is one particular way of looking
at the universe. It's a system of thought, a way
in which we can organize what we know to better
understand the way things work.
In a way, scientists are like fortune tellers. The
goal of the scientist is to understand how the
universe functions in very specific ways, and to
use that understanding to make successful
predictions. What the scientist explains and
predicts has to be testable, which is why science
is so replicable and such a large part of our
society. Thanks to the work of thousands of
scientists, we can predict what will happen if we
drop something, or run electricity through it, or
mix it with something else. The list can go on and
on depending on how that thing has been studied.
Science has proved useful to us because we depend
on technology to live our lives. The science of
burning helped us create things that move us
around like ships, trains, and cars. The science
of growing things helped us make more food and
create new materials out of plants and animals.
However, the science of atoms led to us to create
terrible weapons, and the science of people has
sometimes been used to control and manipulate
them.
Science has also shown us how big we are, and how
little we are, and how we depend on very big or
very little things to survive. In that way many
people find science beautiful.
A scientist is important for the world because she
chooses to look at the world in a special way, a
way that can be useful and can help us understand
ourselves better. There are many approaches to
exploring and appreciating the world. I hope you
try as many of them as you can and see what fits
you best.
Keep questioning,
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