The duty of a scientist is to conduct research as a professional scientist. In the past, we always emphasized that scientists should have the scientific spirit first, that is, you should regard scientific discovery as a career, and you should have the spirit of dedication, truth-seeking, preciseness and persistence. This is the so-called scientific spirit. With scientific research becoming a social system, especially when modern scientific activities are characterized by government-led, science has suddenly changed from "small science" to "big science" and science has also become a profession. This is why scientists, like other people in society, have white-collar workers, blue-collar workers, teachers, apprentices, leaders, exploiters, exploited people, even capitalists, workers, and even hooligans, liars, boasters and fiddlers. Anyway, whether you are an independent scientist or not, if you are engaged in. That is, be practical and professional, which has nothing to do with whether a person is a scientist or not.
Therefore, publishing some powerful articles in the postgraduate stage is a stepping stone for you to find a job, otherwise you must complete the task of publishing articles as soon as possible in the postdoctoral stage, otherwise your life will definitely be difficult. Unless you are not prepared to engage in relevant scientific research. This means that you are no longer a scientist.
The responsibility of scientists is that scientific activities sometimes look more like a kind of credit investment, not only because in today's "big science" era, every scientist needs someone's support, but also scientists without credibility are not real scientists. It seems that someone once said that a contributing scientist is worth many politicians or generals. This sentence is not too much to evaluate scientists in the era of "small science". In the current era of "big science", we should emphasize the contribution of scientific research groups, not individuals. In reality, people are always used to attributing the credit for scientific discovery to the leader of a research group. Therefore, if scientific achievements can bring "credibility" to scientific and technological personnel, it is often a few of them who benefit the most, reflecting the "Matthew effect" that is widespread in society.
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This can understand why scientific research is becoming a profession more and more.
For a young man who is about to grow into a scientist, what you need is how to establish your academic reputation in such an environment. In view of people's cognitive habits, it is difficult for a young science student to give you some academic credibility without his own tutor. Therefore, when you choose a mentor, you must look at your future "mentor". Especially to see if he/she can help you become an "independent" researcher. There is a noun "Mentor" in English, which is equivalent to "mentor" in Chinese. Then the basis for judging whether your tutor is your "tutor" depends not only on whether you really learned something, but also on whether your tutor played a key role in the process of becoming an independent researcher. This is actually very important.
Some people may think that as long as the tutor has done "giving lessons to solve doubts", I think that is really not enough. Because the responsibility of a scientist is not only to make scientific contributions, but also to cultivate an independent scientist. This is actually one of the other important tasks of scientists, which should be counted in a scientist's contribution.
Therefore, in today's scientific environment, for a young man who is interested in becoming a scientist and is ready to devote himself to scientific research, he must pay attention to four aspects.
1. Acknowledge the importance of science and agree that science is necessary for human survival and development. With this concept, we can love science and have the motivation and desire to devote ourselves to science.
2. Cultivate the scientific spirit consciously and master the existing scientific knowledge as systematically as possible. In fact, this is an indispensable thing for a scientist.
3. strategy. Choosing a mentor is the key.
Insist. Continue to conduct in-depth research in a certain direction.
As the ancients said, you should not be careless in choosing a job. Choosing a teacher is also a very serious matter.
Throughout the scientific revolution-the cyclical development of conventional science, Ceng Bangzhe proposed that the stage of scientific development consists of A pioneering talents and a B comprehensive talents (Newton, Einstein, etc.). ), a C inherited talents (master students-as the saying goes, a great teacher makes a great apprentice), D conventional talents (learning from C), and then A E(A) pioneering talents (d). Students began to question B-type talents.
Scientists have the responsibility to contribute to public education by making people widely aware of the dangers and potential brought about by the unprecedented growth of natural sciences. We call on colleagues around the world to make unremitting efforts to this end by inspiring adult groups or educating the next generation. Education should especially emphasize the improvement of various relationships between people, and any form of boasting about war and violence should be eliminated in education.
Scientists, because of their professional knowledge, are more capable of knowing in advance the dangers and potentials brought by scientific discoveries. Therefore, they have special skills and special responsibilities for the most pressing problems of our time.
At present, under the situation of mutual distrust between countries and the resulting military hegemony competition, all branches of physics, chemistry, biology and psychology have increasingly participated in military research and development. In the eyes of people in many countries, "natural science" has been closely linked with "weapons research and development". Scientists are either praised for their contributions to national security or cursed for inventing weapons of mass destruction, which have brought mankind into danger. Science enjoys more and more material support in many countries, mainly because it is of direct or indirect importance to the military strength of the country and the victory of the arms race. This makes science deviate from its real purpose. The real purpose of science is for the well-being of all mankind, enhancing human knowledge and improving human ability to control nature.