In our first Café Scientifique meeting of the academic year, we debated the controversial question: which science is the most important?
Our views differed at the beginning of the debate; some felt physics was the most important due its help in explaining what we don’t understand. Physics plays a critical role in mechanics and energy production as well as many other daily essentials. Some thought biology was incredibly important as it is the only science which studies living things and is vital to medicine. Others thought chemistry was the most important because of its pharmaceutical applications and the valid point that “we can’t cure diseases with biology alone”. Whilst we debated the question, we soon noticed an interesting trend: biology is applied chemistry, chemistry is applied physics and physics is applied maths. This shows that all sciences are reliant on one another. It also demonstrates that maths is crucial to the formation of the 3 sciences. Having established this trend, we continued our debate and concluded that the three sciences are all integral and our society would collapse without any one of them but that physics was the most important science due to its theory and practical applications to almost everything. Chemistry came second and biology last as we felt it wasn't as necessary as the others. Overall, it was an extremely thought-provoking debate and it was great to hear so many opinions and ideas.
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