{"id":2101,"date":"2009-04-08T04:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T09:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2009-04-08T04:04:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T09:04:30","slug":"science-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2101","title":{"rendered":"Science = Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/04\/06\/science-is-imagination\/\">Bad Astronomy: Science IS imagination<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People don\u2019t understand science.<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t mean that your average person doesn\u2019t understand how relativity works, or quantum mechanics, or biochemistry. Like any advanced study, it\u2019s hard to understand them, and it takes a lifetime of work to become familiar with them.<\/p>\n<p>No, what I mean is that people don\u2019t understand the <em>process<\/em> of science. How a scientist goes from a list of observations and perhaps a handful of equations to understanding. To <em>knowing<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Astronomy: Science IS imagination People don\u2019t understand science. And I don\u2019t mean that your average person doesn\u2019t understand how relativity works, or quantum mechanics, or biochemistry. Like any advanced study, it\u2019s hard to understand them, and it takes a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}