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Chemical Education Today
Commentary
Why Should Anyone Become a Scientist? The Ideal of Science and Its Importance
Lewyn Li
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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January 1999
Vol. 76 No. 1
p. 20
Abstract
Every profession has its ideal- in law, it is justice; in medicine, it is the sanctity of human life; and in politics, it is the good of the people. But what is the ideal in science? Why is it important to us and our world? And why is it so rarely spoken of by the scientists themselves? As we will see, the answers to these questions have significant implications on how we should train a scientist. More importantly, they touch the very core of our modern society and our existence as thinking individuals.
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 Li, Lewyn. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 20.
*  Keywords
 History / Philosophy; Ethics; Graduate Education / Research; TA Training
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Last Updated:		 June 15, 1999
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