Lehrer/Boslough Quotation Connection (Blog 12)

The progress that the sciences have made have either been minimal or at an incredibly slow rate. Jonah Lehrer believes that the many fields of sciences with all their efforts over the centuries have made no real significant progress towards a collective understanding or our unknowns. Lehrer stated, “The fundamental point is that modern science has made little progress toward any unified understanding of everything. Our unknowns have not dramatically receded. In many instances, the opposite has happened, so that our most fundamental sciences are bracketed by utter mystery.” (Lehrer 2). As previously stated, along with the many progressions that the sciences have made, they have been at a painstakingly slow pace. Boslough is of a similar belief in agreement with Lehrer when he stated “Science is sometimes slow, but it always involves making educated guesses that eventually lead to testable predictions. If the predictions turn out to be incorrect, the test is still successful if scientists learn enough to modify the theory, find a better one, or discover mistaken assumptions.” (Boslough 1). In connection with the science’s slow rate of discovery, their discoveries are often accidental or unintended. There is a very small percentage of discoveries made through the sciences that were made quickly, and purposefully. This concept is something that both Lehrer and Boslough would agree upon due to their critical perspective of their sciences in their writings.