• Question: what do you think is the biggest scientific advancement?

    Asked by scifigeek22 to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 2 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      Great question!
      As scientists have learnt new stuff over the last few hundred years, there have been lots of big advancements, each of which is important.

      At the moment, I think that the most important one is being able to sequence DNA in cells because of the implications that this will have in developing new medicines and perhaps eradicating deadly diseases.

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      Computers. Or before that, electricity.

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      The popularisation of scientific thought processes by the ancient Greeks (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle for example). Without this, the scientific industry would not exist.

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