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Scientific Attitude and Values: Francis John V. Sicosana

The document outlines several important scientific attitudes including honesty, open-mindedness, curiosity, risk-taking, objectivity, precision, responsibility, and collaboration. Scientists must be honest in reporting data, open to new ideas, curious to make discoveries, willing to take risks and persist despite failures, objective in their work, precise in their methods, responsible for the impacts of their research, and rely on input from others. These attitudes are seen as essential for conducting rigorous and impactful scientific work.

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Scientific Attitude and Values: Francis John V. Sicosana

The document outlines several important scientific attitudes including honesty, open-mindedness, curiosity, risk-taking, objectivity, precision, responsibility, and collaboration. Scientists must be honest in reporting data, open to new ideas, curious to make discoveries, willing to take risks and persist despite failures, objective in their work, precise in their methods, responsible for the impacts of their research, and rely on input from others. These attitudes are seen as essential for conducting rigorous and impactful scientific work.

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Scientific Attitude and Values

FRANCIS JOHN V. SICOSANA


Honesty
A scientist must be intellectually honest.
This attitude allows a scientist to recognize the
work done by other scientists before him. This
attitude is also shown by reporting data truthfully.

“HONESTY IS THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK WISDOM.”

IF I HAVE SEEN FURTHER IT IS BY STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS.


-SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Open-mindedness
A scientist is open minded. Open-mindedness is an
attitude that allows a scientist to look at other
possibilities.
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

Evaluate, validate and accept other people’s idea


towards a question.
“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded
that our brains drop out.”
― Richard Dawkins
A scientist can do critical assessment of results
and limitations.
This enables a scientist to come up with new
concepts which lead to discoveries that
traditional scientists have overlooked.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge


defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all
we might yet discover and create.
-Albert Einstein
A scientist is curious about the world.
This attitude/quality-curiosity-enables a
scientist to try to discover more about the
things around him.

“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you


tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat
died nobly.”
Risk taker, confident and persistent
These attitudes are very important because it
enables a scientist to continue a project despite
obstacles and failures.

“NO GUTS, NO GLORY”


Objectivity
A scientist must be objective in declaring results
of his/her experiments and Judgment is based
on observable phenomena and not influenced
by emotions or personal prejudices

A straight path never leads anywhere except


to the objective.
-Andre Gide
Precision
A scientist must always consider the precision of
his work if it forms a pattern or repeatedly
occurring in nature. Lack of precision to a work
would mean inconsistency.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The


architect's task therefore, is to make those
sentiments more precise.
The moral, social and personal responsibility and
accountability of a scientist to all of his works
must be observed.

“GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY”


“No Man is an Island”

All people need others criticism for us to know if


this can be widely accepted or not.

Two minds are better than one.

he nice thing about teamwork is that you always


have others on your side
Determine what scientific attitude can
be observed in this video.

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