主题：【原创】谈谈数学之用----探讨数学与自然科学的关系 -- 不爱吱声
家园 【文摘】about science The following paragraphs are taken from one article of Jos Elstgeest. The reason that I cited this paper here is that I think it is one of the best definitions of science.
Jos, Consultant at the Regional Pedagogic Centre, Zeeland, Netherland.Was involved in developing materials for the African Primary Science Programme, later on a Unesco Programme for Science Education at the University of Lesotho. Author or Numerous articles on science education.
...And we might begin by considering what we mean when we use the word "science". Unfortunately, many people in the past (still many at now) have mistaken the results of science for science itself.
Science is not a list of discoveries. Science is a way of thinking.
Science is not a scheme for naming animals and plants. Science is the practice of looking at the world around us with an inquiring mind.
Science is not a mass of formulae. Science is the method by which the creative mind can construct order out of chaos and unity out of variety. Any formula is the result of such creativity.
Science is not a body of sterile knowledge. Science is the fertile skill of acquiring new knowledge to be added to the body and to keep it alive.
Science is not a string of dogmatic answers. Science is a logic approach to solving problems. Science is not the ultimate truth. Science is the careful search for truth. And this search sits between the question and the answer.
Science is the same process through which babies and toddlers go when they feel, look, touch and taste and generally explore anything that comes within their reach. Thus they begin to adjust them selves to the world in which they were born. It is of little use to lecture to a toddler on the hotness of the kitchen stove; each one of us has learned this by painful scientific discovery.
家园 Science is not a list of discoveries. Science is a way of thinking. 精辟
家园 I like this best Science is not a string of dogmatic answers. Science is a logic approach to solving problems. Science is not the ultimate truth. Science is the careful search for truth. And this search sits between the question and the answer.
家园 再看一遍，再来一朵花！深合我心， 我总觉得，我们对宇宙的理解是可以用简单的（相对来说）概念来描述这件事情本身，就是物理最大的魅力。
家园 数学是基础思想的支柱 我记的学量子理论时候，推导波函数第一感觉就是数学哪是什么物理，当然说这话要被老师骂了。当然还是物理问题。还有散射角求定，数学问题数学问题。呵呵。
家园 我学的时候也有这种感觉 尤其是初学量子力学到散射那一块的时候。。
另外，之前学电动力学时，我也在想，这门课不如改叫“电动数学”算了！
家园 这个实际上反映了我们物理教学的大问题， 就是形式大于内容。也就是说忽略了物理思想的引导，而专注于处理物理问题。物理思想的发展是非常清晰而优美的。我一直想写点什么，可惜力有不逮，也许。。。。
家园 有道理 当初读量子的时候也有这样的感觉, 老师太沉醉于数学模型的建立而很少仔细阐述背后的物理思想. 用的教材也是如此, 包括曾谨言那本. 后来在图书馆借到朗道的那本乱翻, 发现里面数学公式没多少...
当时有位老先生说了, 这样教有这样教的目的, 数学模型打牢了, 后面再提高才有基础. 对本科生而言, 还是有用的.
个人觉得还是结合的不够好.