Making of a Scientist V.S. Ramachandran, India

Making of a Scientist

V.S. Ramachandran, India

(1951-)

b. Write the four levels of meanings to the text "The Making of a Scientist".

Literal Comprehension:  Curiosity is most influencing factor to be a scientist. Still all people can't be scientist through they have curiosity. To be a scientist one must love to nature and have romantic love affair with her (Nature). The writer got encouraging influences from his science teachers, biology professor and from uncle and brother who were much interested in poetry. Besides he got influenced form his parents-especially from his mother who helped him a lot. For his experience parents in child's mind must there to fill two aspects. First, the child is the best one, second, he is not good enough. The writer was interested in science when he was eleven. He though nature a friend and playground. He took previous scientists as real people.

Having keen interest in various subjects he loved and studied Indian history, art Indus Valley Script and many more. He assumed that Victorian science was good one because there was best progress in science being free from financial problems. He also points out that modern scientists lack fun because they are only research based with tools not the problems oriented. Even then the writer's passion to be a scientist was growing up with the interest in multiple subjects. He left no sector noticed. Nature is not complex thing so it is not difficult to solve/find scientific problems. He referred Darwin, Faraday Galileo like all scientists who walked along adventurous road of science. He has great interest on Neurology because there can have chances to answer common question and large influence secondly It asks question. Who we actually are? The writer becomes scientist not to become famous like other but because of inmost desire and fun and influences from his friends.

Interpretation:  This essay might be trying to highlight the ideas that we do progress and do a lot in any sector if we do with fun and work freely. To be a scientist is not only an inborn quality rather so many factors become responsible there. Again doing workshop, seminars and working with equipment is not scientific work in real. We can't think it is scientific development with high qualities tools. But dedication and multidimensional essay is needed.

Critical Thinking: This essay has successfully presented the ideas that how curiosity leads to progress and how continuous dedication helps to get success in any fields. The writer's interest and final stage of gaining is influencing. Still there are some confusing ideas presented in this essay. How can only parents and homely environment create a scientific mind? Can only curiosity, truth and dedication help someone to be a scientist? Can one be veteran or at home in multiple sectors at a time? Like the writer everyone wants to become great influencing to other people.

Assimilation: After going through this text I got so many ideas. We can't be successful in any mission unless we have deep interest and dedication to it. How the literary persons or scientists make their personal world is given clearly. To be specific in any subject becomes boring. Sometimes having knowledge about multiple disciplines is very much interesting one. Anyway curiosity is the main factor to do progress in any sector.

c. Do you agree with Prof. Ramachandran that "Science is a love affair with nature and more common with poetry". Give reasons.

Yes, I fully agree with writer Prof. Ramachandran about his comparison of science with romantic love after with nature or with poetry. The one who loves nature and enjoys with nature and natural beauty will try to understand the nature. Similarly, the scientists also try to invent new things new facts and create new world.

To love nature means to understand a lot about construction ecosystem and natural phenomena. All scientific inventions from ancient to the present are done within nature. The nature is not always about environmental aspect because nature indicates about human nature or behavior. Sigmund Freud talked a lot about human behaviors. From ancient Dante to Chaucer, Milton Wordsworth Galilio etc. have discussed a lot about the nature in general.

When there is a romantic love affair there is curiosity between lovers to find out newness in each other. They are much more interested and delighted to live funny life. In the same way science is a subject followed by such people who are very much interested and have maximum curiosity to find new things or event. Similarly, poetry is such composition where a poet has made a world of his own with new systems and colors. As scientists or successful persons also create their personnel world. All the philosophers, scientists, biologist, physicists, psychologists, etc. much more delighted with their personal worlds.

On the basis of above mentioned few of the remarks we can conclude that science in more or less in the same pattern of romantic love affair with nature. And it has more common with poetry as well.