Page 7 - Are You Future Ready?
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Preface 1
Achieve, Connect, Educate – Are you
future ready?
The present is simply an instant in time between that which
has been — the past, and that which has yet to come —
the future. In that instant hopefully we are informed by
the past and are anticipating the future. In other words we
should be prepared to learn from the past, and be ready
for the future. For me science works in a way that is rather 005
like this, a discipline is where it is today because of the
work that has gone on in the past. We accept the synthesis
of a field, the experiments and observations that have been
made, we do not all start again from scratch. For example,
few individuals working in modern genomics feel the need
to establish the helical structure of DNA for themselves,
they accept that this has been established and move
on from that point. As Isaac Newton famously wrote to
Robert Hooke: ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on ye
shoulders of giants.’ Science would not have made such
impressive progress in understanding the world around us
if it was forever reinventing the wheel.
