We were all born to a time of ideas, as ideas were born to us. We
reclaimed scraps , bits and pieces of the science that has been left
behind from great thinkers. We have learned to expand upon that work and
build as we go along. The idea was to grown in inkling of freedom in
terms of thinking, where we hadn't been marred by thousands of pages of
what people have already done. Sometimes if not often leaving us with
very little to be enthusiastic about and lot lesser to challenge to
rectify. The methods haven't grown but the software have, the tools have
become simpler and the data sets have become larger in some sense.
Though I seriously question the notion of incremental research, it's
still research isn't it?
For
those who have lurked the hallways of graduate life, and worked hours in
continuation. I earnestly believe you realize the concept "Every day is a working day". For
people who love to experiment I applaud the man hours and the effort to
understand hypothesis and the build blocks of science, and for those who keep
looking for answers in mathematical models, there's always more simulations to
run and get better at. I always wondered is it still science of what we hand
out is still pieces of application only tailored to our needs?
We
were born to a time of ideas, and yet those are the only things we never work
with sometime. For the few who cherish the birth of something new, I applaud
your courage and the willingness to go the extra mile. And for those who are
buried under literature reviews, and poster competitions, life oddly isn't all
about "Publish or Perish", it perishing without something worth wile.
In the annals of academia and halls that are decked with grand gestures in
science and applications, I find a great divide between intellectual freedom of
what can be achieved and what is sometimes allowed to be achieved. For the few
who believe that their R(squared) results are statistically significant, I am
happy they find happiness in the conclusions that we derive. As far as the rest
of the world is concerned science has gone askew from real life , the models
don't fit and for the buried souls in energy drinks and coffee alike, there's
nothing more enthralling than an idea.
And
for the readers who can identify this better, and I quote "What is the
most resilient parasite?
An
idea, Resilient. Highly contagious"
Hope we all get infected.
