Primitive Science

Albert Einstein says “All science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike.” And that it is “the most precious thing we have”. What does that statement mean? Do you agree or disagree with that statement? Why do you agree/disagree?

Science is very complicated and is like a bunch of tangled threads for many people. So thin yet long that it is kind of difficult for us to set it straight. Yet, it is just a tiny part of the enormously incomprehensible reality. We don’t even have any ways to assure whether what we’ve seen until now are real or not. Let alone to believe that the theories made by us humans are right. Compared to reality that we haven’t really known yet, science is primitive, simple, not that greatly improved, it is almost like comparing grandparents to their grandchildren. But it is all we have. Without science, we could very well say we don’t have anything. It is all we have to cling on something that seemed ‘true’ even if the truth we believed in is only temporarily there. Human always need to believe. They need to hold on to something. That’s why religions are out there, with almost everyone’s eye and heart on them. So is science. That’s what I believe. To say it very briefly, I do agree on Einstein’s idea.