What do you get out of science?

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Just curious, not a do you believe in it question, but one of the emotional psychological foundations question? I.e. do you believe in it because it offers truer reality, or because it gives some sense of stability, or if you are religious it allows you to know your creator better.

This is not belief, just what do you get out it.

Me its more about how science allows me to see the grand and great vistas, the humbling largness of it all, and how the boundaries are removed to point where us on the planet seem rather small, even our Gods seem rather small in comparison.

This is what I get out it, am not interested in starting some argument over it, just list what you get out it personally.

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Science gives us a foundation to base all ideas, thoughts, and notions of mechanics upon.

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Science Gives Us A New thing We Don’t Know It At All.

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Perhaps it was confusing, but I meant personally what you get out science, not technological innovations or some such, but what you find interesting about it, what tickles your emotional fancy about it, what philosophical preference you connect with it, etc.

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I like science because it just opens up the world for you. Particularly when I read some of the articles in New Scientist. I feel almost anything is possible.

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Well, science has saved my life on more then one occasion. Can that count?

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Science gives life meaning. For without science there is no exploration, no purpose to our quaint little existence. Man has made a huge deal out of finding new things, without science it wouldn’t be possible. Without science there is no living.