Alchemy Alchemists

After reading the Alchemy, I was surprised by the hard work of those alchemists and the works they had been done. Some people consider their efforts as pseudoscience; however, I didn’t agree with it. I think that what they did in the past accomplish the science today.

When we talk about the science, what is the first thing comes out from your head? I don’t know yours, but mine is those famous scientists, like Einstein, Newtown Curie, Galileo, Darwin etc. It seems that every physics rule and hypothesis is made by them. So could we just say that they made the science?

Famous scientists left their splendid life stories, like the story of Newtown’s apple and the story of Einstein’s equation, and people will remember forever their contributions

He is very lucky that what he insists finally gave him payback. There are tons of hypothesizes in the field of physics and math; some of them cannot be proved and some of them are wrong, but no one knows exactly. The thing is, when scientists are doing a research, it probably takes decades or even longer to prove whether it is true or false. Just like in the book Alchemy by the author Lewis Thomas, those alchemists spent their whole lives to find the philosophers’ stone and the elixir of life, which, obviously, failed. But, “What they did accomplish, however, was no small thing: They got the work going. They fiddled around their laboratory, talked at one another incessantly, set up one crazy experiment after another, wrote endless reams of notes which were then translate from Arabic to Greek to Latin and back again, and their work got underway”(P8). Although what they wanted to do could never be success, but they did contribute to science, in the way they probably didn’t even know

Furthermore, we should not only focus on the scientists themselves; we should be scientists ourselves and give our own ideas about the technology. Everyone in the society need to be scientific educated which, in longer point of view, can generate new ideas to get a better life. A cite which is known by almost every Chinese is “If there are a thousand readers, there must be a thousand Hamlets” which means people understand differently even on the same character in the same book. In another word, everyone will definitely have his/her different way to understand the science problems as well. There will be more other ideas which different with the existing ones, generate. These ideas may or may not correct all the time, since not all of us can be a famous scientists. However, people can create interesting and useful staff like how to travel in universe or how to solve mathematic conjuncture or how to concur energy problem. These unsolved problems will be solved if there are better scientist resource. So, the government need to fund the scientific education, because I believe scientifically educated people will feed back to society much more than they cost, as a result the society will be