Why is science important?

Answer 1

science is and isn't important. Science allows us to think and create new ways of curing diseases, but also allows others to mutate and create new diseases. It allows us to explore and live longer..etc

Answer 2

Let's ask the question another way. Do you like living in a cave or in a house? Do you like clothes or wearing bearskin?

It's only important in so far as we enjoy living more stable/productive lives than animals. Every human invention from the ability to create fire without being around lightning or lava to working on a blog like this are the result of science in action.

Except for some basic activities (sex,eating/deficating,sleeping, breathing, foraging,running etc) we need some invention to achieve, we have even improved on the basics eating, sleeping, sex come to mind through science.

Communication and in our case symbolic (advanced) communication is posslble between humans. To more effectively understand one another, we had to learn and pass that learned knowledge on to others. That communication and learning is the basis of science.

Way before there was the scientific method, some person had to figure out, which foods were good to eat.

Some distant ancestor asked a question "Which treenuts are good to eat?", Some almond tree's produce good tasting nuts others produce bitter poisonous nuts , figuring out which trees were which was a possibly deadly but necessary process. That process in one way or another was the start of our development of science.

Since the development of basic farming and surpluses and the ability to have specialized craftsmen not dedicated to food production, older craftsmen trained younger ones, and so on.

Eventually schools with highly skilled craftsmen/specialists trained younger students in basic skills.

Eventually, the idea of organization of training eventually led to ways of seeking new knowledge for it's own sake, the rational ordered process we would call science.

In the east from about 2000BC and in the west from about the 450BC or so it really became formalized.

After about 1500 (for various reasons) our scientific achievements have allowed us to do everything from move great distances across the sea reliably to feed ever larger groups of people to putting men on the moon.

Answer 3

Science is important because it trains your mind to think in rational patterns which will allow you to solve problems in more efficient ways.