How does being a chemist change your view on the world?
Scientific knowledge and analysis shape our view, but can also be selectively ignored
Being a scientist means taking a certain view of the world. The idea that there are invariable natural laws and that they can be discovered (and queried) by organised experiments has not come easily to humanity. What does this sort of thinking do to a person’s view of the world, compared to a non-scientist? I would divide these into two categories – the effect of the knowledge itself, and the effects of a scientific frame of mind.