Enjoying a broad education, having enough time to reflect on your life, earning money without too much pressure, being surrounded by cultivated and peaceful fellows, achieving societal awareness, respect and credibility - enough good reasons for scientists to feel good.
But do scientists really feel better in their life?
I doubt. Even if I sometimes had that (see photo attached in front of the castle the town of Salzburg, Austria lended me for six years to conduct my studies)
I may guess that Palestinian scientists are living the worst life. It is not earning "enough" money or having "enough" time what they are asking for better life. It is a FREEDOM and DIGNITY.
Even though, I don't think that all things around us can make us happy. Actually, what makes us unhappy is mainly our minds.
"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."
Ecclesiastes
Dear Alexander.
This is an absolutely interesting question. Thank you.
I also have doubts on this issue.
A scientists ' life is far from being comfortable, in the South of Europe.
Our wages are low. Our labs are scarcely well equiped. We suffer from the lack of fundings, because our Government is nearly bankrupt, and money is preferably used for other more urgent necessities of the population... (I could go on and on... I hardly ever sit and relax, as you did, because I need to keep two more jobs as a medical practitioner, to keep me going, as a Universitary teacher and researcher)
Nevertheless, I ran to answer Y E S to your question, because I do agree that scientists couldn't pray for a better life. Because it is so good and so pleasurable to perform scientific research, because it is so good to teach science because it makes sense, and because I feel honest everyday, and I wouldn't hope for a better career...
I still have the high hopes of being able to sit on a sofa enjoying the landscape and reading a book, for pleasure ... when I retire.
(My answer is certainly Yes, but for totally different reason from what you proposed. Yes.)
I send you my best regards from beautiful Portugal.
Scientist are born with their vision .They are creators for the thing & matter working in their mind .In one way they have with them a creative forces which help them for endorsement of their task in laboratory & laboratory remains a life tool of their life .
They have with them all the time a research working in their mind & for their creation they are performing the fruitful services for the society .They are born with their natural traits as a part of the grace receive by them in their resulting fruits of their previous action of their earlier lives .
With this it has been observed that they are living in their own compartment .They are also human beings but can not effort to live their life equally enjoyable -pleasurable with other members who has also contributed their areas of activities in under a phase .
Scientist speak silence with their mind ,they live in their own world & with their endorsement of their mind,they very often miss the happy & peaceful environment of their own family & in certain cases they do not have time to watch the development of kids ,smiling of mother ,& the family
Dear Maria! Thank you for your honest answer, a smiling "Yes!" (whatever is meant by it). Yes, Portugal is beautiful. Some yeas ago I've been invited to speak in Cascais and was overwhelmed by the beauty of the beaches, of Sintra and the sea food in the small beach restaurants.
Unfortunately most of the speeches and presentations at our congress were quite boring. There was zero connection to the place and the atmosphere. So I spent the time walking on the beach and making love.
Your YES is a plead for the dignity of scientists in the midst of corruption and egoism. Hopefully many scientists feel like that.
I may guess that Palestinian scientists are living the worst life. It is not earning "enough" money or having "enough" time what they are asking for better life. It is a FREEDOM and DIGNITY.
Even though, I don't think that all things around us can make us happy. Actually, what makes us unhappy is mainly our minds.
"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."
Ecclesiastes
Dear Alaa,
so what mind does help to live under the Israelian occupation, their racism and governmental terrorism? Is it philosophical wisdom? Religion? Or societal virtues such as interpersonal trust, solidarity, helpfulness, friendliness and hospitality? Or all of them?
Tell us more on how to make up your mind in this environment.
Would you fill out my Arabic questionnaire on Social Capital?
I attach the link.
Be included in my prayers and wishes
your Alexander Dill
https://trustyourplace.com/?lang=arabic
Dear Rohit,
so are scientists a bit unhappy and cut off from the normal happy life in India? Could you tell us a bit more? Does it depend on the faculty?
Our mindset would be the main determinant and the religion is in the center of this mindset. Most of the people who stand up for our lands are religious and this is not a secret.
I filled out your questionnaire.
Best Regards
Science is a professional career, and every scientist has to be a professional. In my opinion, in science there is no place for emotions. As a researcher from a developing country, and working with a sweetener plant as Stevia rebaudiana, I confess that I tasted the leaves only one, no more than two times in the last 30 years. My focus is only on the data. Currently, part of my research has been granted by my money. A researcher cannot discuss that grants is scarce. When we do not have money to buy sophisticated equipment, the solution is to count. See my review about the references on stages of plant development. If we do not have fertilizer, the options are cattle or goat manure, and so on. In my opinion, undeveloped countries should focus on mathematics and statistics, for example. Science can be compared with art. All over the planet, we have great painters, sculptors and so on. Art and tourism are good combinations for development. Ah! If mobile phones can also connect people, how about to assembly a scale with mg accuracy that could be used everywhere. Otherwise, when the money is scarce, we may create plant combinations to improve the soil conditions for cropping food. How to decide if the treatment was successful: count the nodes. Suddenly, a poor country will be in the spotlight of the population life quality: the final frontier. Publishing is pure emotion, and historically we have only small fragments from the ancient civilizations, like Alexandria Library and Timbuktu, but we are sure that they had good scientists. In Science there is only one issue to avoid: never give up.
Yes George: It is good to have a purpose in life, especially one that puts your grey cells at work.
But in everyday life (children, partners, ...) often scientific approach does not help. Sometimes it means a little of emotion more than a bucket of scientific procedures.
In everyday life can be the dour scientist pretty unhappy :-))
Scientists take up a career in research as a personal choice , as Kouser has stated . Success is a personal matter & a scientist feels happy , when his article is published & his peers acknowledge his contribution . If he wants to make more money , he has a choice to leave his scientist job & become a business man . A scientist is happy to retain his creativity , inspite of all the odds against him . If a nation has to progress , it is primarily because of scientific contribution of the researchers .
Dear Singh,
it seems to me that the voluntary spirit of science is more alive in natural sciences, Humanities and medicine. Whereelse Law and Economics - in Europe as well Medicine - tend to be chosen by students with few scientific, spiritual and societal ambitions.
That's just an observation in Europe and I don't know if it fits to the situation in India. Could you tell us more?
Thank you your Alexander Dill
Dear Alexander ,
I thank you for your message & the outset let me be frank with you that while replying any answer or even for my publication i view the same in totality & not in isolation .
I believe in entire human beings as the gift of the nature or so to say almighty God.
We all are born with certain traits which we all have receive with the resulting fruits of our action of our previous lives & after our arrival on this mother Earth we may our development either positive or negative accordingly to the environment which we have accepted in our rotation of our environment which we remain as the part of the same.
With regards-May God Bless you
Rohit
I can say that the life of scientists are relatively better, focused, and relaxed in developed nations. In third world countries, to become a Scientist with a comfortable means of funds for his/her research, S/he has to be a Sycophant or at the mercy of some influential senior persons. This may not be the case in western cultures.
Dear Alexander ,
Regarding your question , I do not have the data to make my remarks on the situation in India . In India , parents insist that their children become doctors , engineers or businessmen as a career which would ensure economic success . There is a recent change in the universities , that promotion of faculties depends not only on seniority , but also on research contributions based on publications . This would encourage more young persons to take up a career in science . More encouragement is needed in social sciences . But funding for research is a major problem as highlighted by Santhana Krishnan .
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief
( Ecclesiastes 1:18)
Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.
( Ecclesiastes 12:12 )
surrounded by cultivated and peaceful fellows, achieving societal awareness, respect and credibility ? in case you see academic atmospheres with rose-coloured spectacles.
Let's call a spade a spate ,
MY poem might shed some light on the issue:
Who’d like to be a university student?
After untold gloomy hours of studies and concentration,
Chained to textbooks, pamphlets and notes ,
A zestful arduous academic immersion,
For the tedious sterile matriculation,
Has to spend a fortune, yes, costly registration,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Assigned to the dingy small rooms of a dormitory,
Packed like sardines with other young inmates in misery, in a penitentiary ,
Some ten sad souls confined in stinking dungeons, pathetic scenery,
Who’d like to be a university student?
The meals never succulent , not for manhood,
Yucky stews, rotten bread, plain rice, canned food,
Like war soldiers having their C-Ration in bad mood,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Teachers , personification of fear and intimidation ,
Abuse, foolhardy, and manipulation,
Exams , pistols of revenge, fright and repression,
Targeting students’ brains, hearts, and imagination,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Textbooks , lucrative business for the academic mafia kingdom,
Classes , cubicles of stress, anxiety , and boredom,
Not havens of insight inspiration and freedom,
Who’d like to be a university student?
The campus , the hub of control, and intrusion,
Ye s, dress codes, behavior codes, make up code,
relationship codes, discourse codes,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Yes, a degree is granted , congratulations!
and the ‘’ happy ‘’ graduate is smoking
cheap cigarettes in parks, corroding,
or in shopping malls, melancholically wandering , fanaticizing,
Wearing worn-out shoes, uselessly job hunting,
Or joining the army with disillusionment and frustration,
A regular insignificant soldier under command , ceaselessly aimlessly marching ,
Salute sergeant !
But he is basking in the academic title . gee wheeze !
Who’d like to be a university student?
,
surrounded by cultivated and peaceful fellows, achieving societal awareness, respect and credibility ? in case you see academic atmospheres with rose-coloured spectacles.
Let's call a spade a spate ,
MY poem might shed some light on the issue:
Who’d like to be a university student?
After untold gloomy hours of studies and concentration,
Chained to textbooks, pamphlets and notes ,
A zestful arduous academic immersion,
For the tedious sterile matriculation,
Has to spend a fortune, yes, costly registration,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Assigned to the dingy small rooms of a dormitory,
Packed like sardines with other young inmates in misery, in a penitentiary ,
Some ten sad souls confined in stinking dungeons, pathetic scenery,
Who’d like to be a university student?
The meals never succulent , not for manhood,
Yucky stews, rotten bread, plain rice, canned food,
Like war soldiers having their C-Ration in bad mood,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Teachers , personification of fear and intimidation ,
Abuse, foolhardy, and manipulation,
Exams , pistols of revenge, fright and repression,
Targeting students’ brains, hearts, and imagination,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Textbooks , lucrative business for the academic mafia kingdom,
Classes , cubicles of stress, anxiety , and boredom,
Not havens of insight inspiration and freedom,
Who’d like to be a university student?
The campus , the hub of control, and intrusion,
Ye s, dress codes, behavior codes, make up code,
relationship codes, discourse codes,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Yes, a degree is granted , congratulations!
and the ‘’ happy ‘’ graduate is smoking
cheap cigarettes in parks, corroding,
or in shopping malls, melancholically wandering , fanaticizing,
Wearing worn-out shoes, uselessly job hunting,
Or joining the army with disillusionment and frustration,
A regular insignificant soldier under command , ceaselessly aimlessly marching ,
Salute sergeant !
But he is basking in the academic title . gee wheeze !
Who’d like to be a university student?
,
surrounded by cultivated and peaceful fellows, achieving societal awareness, respect and credibility ? in case you see academic atmospheres with rose-coloured spectacles.
Let's call a spade a spate ,
MY poem might shed some light on the issue:
Who’d like to be a university student?
After untold gloomy hours of studies and concentration,
Chained to textbooks, pamphlets and notes ,
A zestful arduous academic immersion,
For the tedious sterile matriculation,
Has to spend a fortune, yes, costly registration,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Assigned to the dingy small rooms of a dormitory,
Packed like sardines with other young inmates in misery, in a penitentiary ,
Some ten sad souls confined in stinking dungeons, pathetic scenery,
Who’d like to be a university student?
The meals never succulent , not for manhood,
Yucky stews, rotten bread, plain rice, canned food,
Like war soldiers having their C-Ration in bad mood,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Teachers , personification of fear and intimidation ,
Abuse, foolhardy, and manipulation,
Exams , pistols of revenge, fright and repression,
Targeting students’ brains, hearts, and imagination,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Textbooks , lucrative business for the academic mafia kingdom,
Classes , cubicles of stress, anxiety , and boredom,
Not havens of insight inspiration and freedom,
Who’d like to be a university student?
The campus , the hub of control, and intrusion,
Ye s, dress codes, behavior codes, make up code,
relationship codes, discourse codes,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Yes, a degree is granted , congratulations!
and the ‘’ happy ‘’ graduate is smoking
cheap cigarettes in parks, corroding,
or in shopping malls, melancholically wandering , fanaticizing,
Wearing worn-out shoes, uselessly job hunting,
Or joining the army with disillusionment and frustration,
A regular insignificant soldier under command , ceaselessly aimlessly marching ,
Salute sergeant !
But he is basking in the academic title . gee wheeze !
Who’d like to be a university student?
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