2007-01-06 11:57:34 · 10 answers · asked by xneoshadowalkerx 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Because it's fun
2007-01-06 12:05:17 · answer #1 · answered by Elk n' Fresh 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to be a science teacher. I used to tell my students that there's a world shortage of people with scientific qualifications, so a science education is a useful meal ticket. This is true, but with hindsight two equally important reasons for studying science are that it makes you more independent and able to look after yourself. You're less likely to be sucked in by quacks, faith healers, sellers of magnetic bracelets and cars that run on water and pyramid selling scams (yes, economics is now a respectable science), and you'll know more about hygiene and nutrition. It's no coincidence that the better-educated you are, the longer you're likely to live. The second reason, and the main reason I chose to study science, is that it makes life much more interesting and enjoyable. People who believe in magic and fundamentalist religions live in a frightening and boring world. And the ultimate ripoff is following the tenets of some nutty religion in the hope of a reward in some imaginary afterlife. You abstain from sex, booze and everything else that makes life worth living, martyr yourself fighting infidels, suicide-bombing strangers or blowing up abortion clinics, then what do you do when Jesus isn't waiting at the pearly gates to reward you? Complain to the cops? Real science is much more exciting than any fairy story. Your question is a good one. Everybody should think about it.
2007-01-06 20:27:09 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So that we can get to know the world around us, and prove fact from fiction.
Early Hawaiin people did not understand volcanoes, and so they made up "volcano gods". Although interesting to read about, making stuff up about things you don't understand is rather primitive.
Also, without science and technology, there would not be computers, the internet, or even daily insulin shots for people with diabetes. How would you feel if you had a disease, and there was no way to treat it? Thus, science.
2007-01-06 20:10:05 · answer #3 · answered by A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science is studied to gain understanding of the universe as someone previously stated. Key word is "understanding".
2007-01-06 21:23:41 · answer #4 · answered by V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not?
Would you have been able to post that question had science not been studied?
2007-01-06 19:59:28 · answer #5 · answered by SteveT 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think science is studied for people to find what life is basiclly about an the things in it
2007-01-06 20:06:56 · answer #6 · answered by ASHMO 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
curiosity never really killed the cat. although the saying says it, it didn't. if curiosity never killed the cat, we could switch cat with human and say ' curiosity never really killed the human' ( even if it did ) and i guess many of us are just curious of everything and its coincedental that science is something people care about so they decided to look it up? and besides.... you can't really google science can you? prehistoric people found it all by themselves... accidental or not...
2007-01-06 20:09:35 · answer #7 · answered by Mimí..ツ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we want to understand the universe.
2007-01-06 19:59:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So we can be more clever than Neanderthals who don't study it.
2007-01-07 01:22:33 · answer #9 · answered by walter_b_marvin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is studied to make break through's and to propagate knowledge.
2007-01-06 20:00:38 · answer #10 · answered by Biker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋