They may eclipse epistemic understanding about how science generates new knowledge.
There is enormous potential in the biomedical sciences for translating new knowledge and technological capability into powerful tools for the prevention and treatment of disease.
Robotics science can be pursued in two different ways: the first, according to the model of synthetic science, in which engineers create new knowledge (and thus science) by addressing and solving a series of problems; the second, by using robots to unveil natural principles.
Young scientists, remember your humanity: to the younger scientists, I will suggest that they should do science which can create new knowledge and technologies and at the same time help in taking science to society.
Other systems of thought, like religion, are founded on immutable dogma, whereas science changes to accommodate new knowledge.
After all, that's what science does: it builds new knowledge of the natural world by continually improving and refining our previous understandings.
Gombrich's great work involved mapping the methods of the sciences, their search for new knowledge through self-correcting experiment, onto the history of painting.
One of the most compelling notions -- and here Brecht shows his famous politics -- involves whether the masses should be entrusted with the new knowledge of science; in this account, Galileo's theories filter down to the common people and change their worldview with surprising speed.
The discovery of new knowledge through science, or the creation of it, if you prefer, raises up and ennobles humankind, if anything can perform that difficult feat.
Finally, it is dysfunctional because it is way too slow in translating new knowledge and science into helping human beings, at a time when we're going to have an enormous explosion in scientific knowledge.
In recent decades, the field of medical equipment and the promotion of medical and economic potential have received attention in terms of detecting the increase in the efficiency of health systems as well as rapid progress in the development and implementation of new knowledge from science and research.
