Who is a scientist?

What is science?

Science is not just knowledge, but a thought. It is the way of thinking that leads you to the reality of things. How is the universe? What are the principles of the universe? What is life? What are the principles of life? All these are understood by us from a scientific way of thinking.

Who is a scientist?

Let us give you a better definition of a scientist today. Our common perception is that a scientist is just a bomb or missile maker. The reason for this is that whenever we hear the name of scientists in the world, we hear it in the context of a defense program.

Another impression about a scientist is that he might go to the lab and invent something new. This reason is also understandable because science books refer to Graham Bell's phone or Edison's light bulb (well, neither of them is the inventor of these two inventions).

The third impression is that the scientist is supposed to present a new scientific theory. The context of this reason is also understandable if one has read something about the work of Newton, Einstein, or Abdul Slam as a child.

What does a scientist do?

It is not necessary that a scientist should make a new invention or give a completely new theory. A scientist actually conducts research in a field of science and makes further progress in it. He publishes the results of this development in the form of scientific papers in reliable scientific journals or gets a patent so that no one else can copy his new idea or scientific solution, but use it to further improve a field of science.

Now suppose the James Webb Telescope project.

On James web telescope, thousands of scientists have worked day and night, so has everyone come up with a new invention or a new theory? No, everyone cannot give new inventions, but they advance the old inventions together.

Most of these scientists would have made little progress in building the telescope, launching it, and making it work properly by advancing the current knowledge that took the project to completion.

The work of a scientist is observation, experimentation, and research.

In fact, progress in science is the work of a scientist through experiments, observations, and research. If they do it and make an invention or a scientific theory, great. But this process is evolutionary and stepwise. Scientists do not enter the field thinking that there is a new invention or theory to be made. This may or may not occur in the research process.

Another example is the thousands of scientists working at the CERN lab on atomic research. They are not giving new inventions or theories every day, but they are finding solutions to scientific problems step by step or finding new scientific problems.

Scientists are not invisible beings, but ordinary human beings, but their curiosity and devotion to science are like that of children. They are very rare in the world.