Science
Science is not the opposite of humanistic matters, nor is itself a matter. Science is a way of thinking, a curiosity towards every aspect of what is around us. Too often science is considered as the technical part of our life, standing against the sentimental part of our human being. It is true that nowadays technique involves
more and more aspects of us. Just thinking about all things that were made possible by science discoveries show how wrong are people that assert to be able to live without it. Nonetheless technique is not science, and being skilled in one particular field of technique is not being a scientist. Scientific research is not involved in secular objective such that of making money, but it is an impulse that lead us to the realization of how the world works. Incidentally this can bring to new discoveries, but a real scientist, in spite
of the fact he is living on Earth and so glad of making money, prove a greater satisfaction interpreting a phenomenon than inventing a stupid thing of great commercial value. Restricting yourself to only one field of knowledge makes you lose the global perspective of the world and the purpose of learning and comprehending: lore. By this I do not want to assert that lore is possible:
an intelligent scientist of centuries ago, Linneo, said that "ea quae scimus sunt pars minima eorum que ignoramus" (what we know is a minimum part compared with what we do not know). The vision of a complete reality helps you free your mind, and science is just an attempt of explanation and classification of reality. Western philosophies tend to catalogue reality into forms that are not able to explain the actual essence of things. Konrad Lorenz, in a book of his
("Die Rückseite des Spiegels") interprets in a peculiar way the theory of Nicolai Hartmann about the layers of actual being ("Der Aufbau der realen Wert"): the inorganic, the organic, the psychical and the spiritual. Each category is ruled by laws that rules also the following one, but by putting them together something new is created, jumping so into more evolved form. This can be applied to science too: as many are the physical rules that govern inorganic matter, many are the branches of science, but it is only integrating them, such as for physical phenomenon, that something more can be born. It is the global view that must be reached in order to elevate yourself to an upper plane of comprehension. For what concern myself I have always been trying to reach this purpose, and so keeping my curiosity for almost all things (as the title of my home page suggests), although I made a choice when I start my university studies, taking astrophysics as my principal matter. I managed not to restrict my field of
view, and many are the spheres of my interest. Animal behaviour (and human too) is maybe the second best love in the scientific branch, but as the other pages tell you my life is full. Perhaps the thing I can do better is teaching, and lessons I give to students of high school show my perspective toward life. I actually am a tutor for most of them, being able in scientific matters such as Physics, Chemistry, Maths, and in humanistic ones too, as Literature,
English, Music and Philosophy. In this page you can see also some photos that reflects my scientific interest, and in particular one that may be considered a stroke of luck: I photographed with a 100 Asa, and so with good definition, two events that, if each of them may be considered as seldom seen, together may be more than rare: the Hyakutaki comet with a meteorite falling. You cannot see it well here because of little memory space allowed (the real pic occupied more than 17 Mb), but if you want it there are posters available in A2, A3, and A4 format and T-shirts with the photo. You can ask me by
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