New Knowledge

Harold Kroto won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, the soccer ball shaped form of carbon better known as buckyballs. On June 28, he spoke to students about science as a [philosophical:technical] construct:"I'm going to talk about what science is because it's a totally [misunderstood:misunderstand] sort of subject. There are aspects of science which are important, and of course, we know the body of knowledge that you learn at school, alright. The applications of those knowledge, technology, the only thing that journalists ever ask, in general, 99 percent of the time."Perhaps most [important:details] is that it's the way that we discover new knowledge. But for me the most important, by far, is that it's the only philosophical [construct:building] we have to determine truth with any degree of [reliability:dependability] . Think about that. Because then it becomes a much bigger subject.