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A study trip to Denmark is a great opportunity to meet world class scientists and have a conversation with them. It would help me to gain a new perspective on things and open up to many possibilities within the scientific arena. This would be a chance to step out from the course books and get to know the creative world, opening up further questions and avenues of enquiry, enriching my stock of knowledge. Rapid development of science in Europe, nearly 400 years ago, when the working of the material world began to be clearly understood, created a great sense of confidence in human intellect. Each new step, each new success, created new aspirations and hopes and generated the feeling that a world-wide fair and just society, bestowing dignity to …show more content…

Science progress rapidly where practitioners and thinkers mix and interact. This study trip would help me to satisfy my natural curiosity and consciously think about using science for the benefit of all. Science is a question of ideas, a way of thinking. It involves observation and insight, reasoning and intuition, systematic work and creative impulse. This study trip would allow me to realize and understand the scientific methods to solve day-to-day problems by shunning away the dogmatic beliefs. It would do me good to adopt positive attitudes of curiosity, a questioning bent of mind, confidence in my ability and open-mindedness. I would like to take advantage of this opportunity to gather information and scientific knowledge. The more I add to my knowledge, the more questions arise about unknown mysteries of nature. Science is not an abstract body of knowledge, it is very much a knowledge of the reality as it exists, from the environment, to the mind and body, and on the society. Being itself a part of reality, science can change the material and social reality from within. For me science gives a culture and philosophy of life which leads to the pursuit of truth without

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