Scientists have a high status in most people's hearts and know them with a reverential mindset. After reading this humorous scientific history of comics in the past two days, my inherent impression of them has changed.
In fact, scientists also have their own shortcomings and imperfections, there are peaks and lows in life, as well as strange and flawed.
When I turned the first page and started reading, it seemed to have a fascinating attraction, and I couldn't wait to read the interesting stories that happened behind each scientist.
The types of scientists described in the book range from the pinnacle duels of geniuses, to strange scientists with the strongest intelligent brains of human beings, to tragic scholars who are destined to die.
Bacon once said, "Of all the wealth that can benefit mankind, I find that there is nothing greater than new technologies, new contributions, and new inventions that improve human life."
Scientists are often in competition, and these competitions are either a confrontation between progressive and conservative forces, and some are competing for different paths to achieve the same goal. And these sciences have made us better at life and understand life.
In the book, Edison and Tesla in the battle between DC and ALTERNA. I admire Edison as a successful businessman who can commercialize technology and set up companies, bringing together smart people to do great things.
Tesla's imagination and creativity are outstanding, and he has made outstanding contributions in the field of electrical engineering. But no matter how talented an individual is, it is also small. A person's character and pursuits determine the direction of his life.
I was impressed by a passage Tesla said, "When a child's hobby develops into a strong desire, a man strides toward his goal at an astonishing rate."
Tesla was not a god, and Edison was not a demon. Historical figures cannot be measured by today's standards.
And the calculus controversy: Newton and Leibniz, the DNA controversy: Crick, Watson and Rosalyn Franklin, all of which made me sigh.
Reading this interesting comic book on the history of science, I learned that the research and invention of scientists is not only suffering, painstaking, and obscure for decades, but only in academic efforts.
In fact, they are also happy and willing to eat. There are many unknown sides of life that they have.
Feynman, who won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics, was known as the wisest man in the 20th century after Einstein.
But he is particularly funny and humorous, a geek full of ghost ideas and mischief, and his daily life is almost like that of a comedian, full of paragraphs.
There is also a mathematician and collaborator with the largest number of papers published in history, Erdős. Paul.
His experience was so bizarre that he had no home, no job, no family, so he carried a bag, wandered around the world, and when he was bored, he coldly knocked on the door of other mathematicians to study with them.
Someone asked him, you don't even have a job, where is the money to travel the world?
Paul replied, "If you run out of money, crack a few puzzles, so that there will be no bonuses?" It's simple. ”
It seems that if you want to do whatever you want, you must have real ability.
The common qualities of scientists are: First, the spirit of never-ending curiosity. It is their search for knowledge and the spirit of seeking truth that make one problem after another be solved;
Second, permanent concentration, self-judgment and self-confidence. Studying a topic or solving a problem for a certain proof often takes years or even a lifetime. Identifying a goal is to devote oneself wholeheartedly, even if there is a lot of criticism and disapproval around you. Their self-confidence stems from their true strength and perseverance.
Third, the scientific attitude of innovation and truth-seeking. Scientists build a logical edifice, an understanding of the objective existence of the outside world.
After reading so many twists and turns about scientists in this book, I wondered if I would have learned more thoroughly and interested if I had understood the stories behind them when I was learning these basic knowledge!
Of course, as a person who looks at mathematical equations and the laws of physics like taking hypnotherps, I guess I still "don't know" them.