That is true. You remind me what Dr. Ostrofsky and I were talking about this past weekend, 'te. We were in the Allegheny Forest Park Reserve collecting blue jays, robins and crows--and we happened to strike a rather interesting conversation that I dont think i'll ever forget. We talked about the progression of science, particularly biology and the history of medicine. One thing that he told me that our society's scientific progress has made huge leaps and bounds--from the discovery of the bacterium, the viral nature, genetic codets, neural processes etc--all of which have been made known in the 20th century alone. Science is ever changing, he made it known, as when he was a student in my position--biology was once known as 'zoology', which made us laugh--discerning the age of my professor, lol. But he and I had such a warm conversation as we sat on top of a hill in the Allegheny Forest--looking around the vastness of the evergreens and maplewoods. "Before you and I were born, all of this was here, and after you and I and our successors, all of this will be here--the only difference will be the techniques scientists in the future will use. We all have one thing in common that links us with history and it is our intrinsic need to discover and understand our surroundings." Mao jud, and tinuud jud what Dr. Ostrofsky said. Science is ever changing, in all reality, the concept of science is merely a social construct; a manifestation of our race's specific need to understand the scientific processes of our surroundings.
I do agree with my professor in that years after I am long dead, scientists will look back at my generation and discuss the 'old techniques' that we use. The very same way as we, of the present, study the development of natural science (bio,chem,physics,neuroscience) of say the 18th, 19th and 20th century.
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