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cracked- but its a good thing

Submitted by Marina on Sun, 04/19/2009 - 10:33am.
When Magda describes the "cracks" as being healthy I agree with her and find that it parallels nicely with Prof. Grobstein's notion of the "crack" being valuable to the study of science. In both cases the crack brings new insight and exposure. This new insight then brings new ideas and innovations along with it. Cracks are important to keep ideas evolving and changing, without the crack scientific studies would be stagnant and isolated- would they even be worth doing without the crack? What would be the purpose of a scientific study without the crack? It seems like without cracks scientific study would be pointless, uninformative, and wouldn't really teach us anything about the world. The cracks in our personality that Magda refers to are different from the cracks in scientific study, but they work in the same way. Cracks in our personality also provide insight and new understanding, but the cracks are within ourselves whereas in science the cracks are within others (people with different backgrounds, beliefs, etc). The cracks within are just as important, though, as they provide new insight to ourselves rather than the world.

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