The Rage to Know


This chapter excerpt discusses the various reasons scientist are involved in their professions, including the pleasures, challenges, and discoveries associated with scientific endeavor. Focusing on the motivations of well-known scientists throughout history, Judson creates a vivid picture of the creative process, with all of the joys and the frustrations. The scientist are optimistic. Their primary motivation is not material success but delight in making sense of the world.

When the writer's daughter, without being taught, said that the prime numbers are unfair, he was happy that she had realized the pure moment of scientific perception. The moment when scientist knows the truth is not easy to describe. But it is quite satisfactory, attractive, happy, beautiful and peaceful. The area of science is very wide. But there is unity in diversity. There is attraction in the variety of the world, and there is simplicity in it.



Scientists are interested in science because of their pride in their skill, the satisfaction caused by their friends praise, and their desire for competition and fame. First, they are curious, and later they get fun. This fun makes all scientists busy with their work. Even Isaac Newton was interested in science like a child looking for something nicer on the seashore. The curiosity and fun becomes lifelong interested for some scientists. Most people would find nature interesting for some time, but they would forget it later. Some other people would make it their lifelong passion.



Without passion, one cannot create, whether one may be artist or a scientist. One must feel pain until one understand it. One must devote decades continuously to find out the solution even if the condition might be hopeless. However, later a brilliant student can understand the solution easily.

In the first stage, to gain knowledge, problems should be continuously considered for weeks, and the unconscious mind find out the natural movement. Scientist are so closely familiar with the problem that they would feel themselves in a particular situation. In the second stage, the problem is put aside and after the weeks the solutions comes out itself. Henri Poincare did the same.
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Science is the present century's arts. Four hundred years ago, Bacon said that knowledge is power. Today we say that science is necessary to develop technology. Although the result in science is unpredictable, it has given complete freedom to scientists to research.