Shi Yigong expounds the connotation of scientific spirit: seeking truth, independence and cooperation, questioning
Shi Yigong. Wang Gang
Zhongxin. com Wenzhou, October 26th (Qian Chenfei) On the 26th, the 2019 World Young Scientists Summit was held in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province with the theme of "Gathering talents from all over the world for a better future". Shi Yigong, academician of China Academy of Sciences and president of West Lake University, explained the connotation of scientific spirit from three angles. It points out that the scientific spirit includes seeking truth, independence, cooperation and questioning.
"The scientific spirit is seeking truth and seeking truth from facts. Seeking truth is not simply right or wrong, but further seeking truth and exploring at the forefront of human knowledge." Shi Yigong believes that raising questions is the key to scientific research, rather than solving scientific problems. The presentation of the problem includes a new description of an old scientific problem, and the new description is really contributing to the world.
The opening ceremony. Wang Gang
In Shi Yigong’s view, independence and cooperation are also the connotation of scientific spirit. "Independence and cooperation seem to be contradictory, but they are actually completely unified. The so-called independence, major scientific discoveries often come from a few people or even individuals, and these people often suffer some hardships and encounter different opinions in the process of major scientific discoveries. They must adhere to their own views in order to succeed, so we need independent thinking; However, the development of science often requires cooperation. This kind of cooperation is not limited to the cooperation within the team, but also depends on the cooperation between teams, and even the cooperation between generations and industries. "
Taking Heliocentrism and Darwin’s evolutionism of Copernicus as examples, Shi Yigong pointed out that questioning is the most important scientific spirit. "We need to constantly question, not only ourselves, but also our predecessors, collide our thoughts in the voice of doubt, constantly improve and improve, continuously deepen cooperation, and finally promote the development of science."
In addition, it puts forward that the world today needs scientific spirit more. The so-called scientific spirit is the act of radiating the scientific spirit to the public’s ideas, nourishing the public’s thoughts and internalizing the public through words and deeds; Let scientific and technological work become an attractive job, a career that the public respects and yearns for, and encourage more people to join the scientific cause.
Facing young scientists, Shi Yigong appealed that the scientific spirit should be spread by the whole society, and the most important thing is to spread it by young scientists. (End)