aga
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Quick one : is All science Sight based ?
Are there any blind scientists ?
It occurred to me that Sight is our main sense, and so there will certainly be a bias towards simply Seeing things, e.g. digital thermometer.
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Euler, the greatest matematician of all time, created most of his work after he became blind.
Watch this - I am pretty sure you'll be glad you did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEWj93XjON0
(Jump to 1:20)
I've watched that video a couple of time, and now I'm going to watch it again.
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One of the worlds best perfume guys (I need to look his name up) is blind. Interesting question though, I know alot of machines like mass spectrometer
run on windows software so you could use the speak thing to speak the results etc
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There is of course a bias towards sight, but how can you really know for sure you've made benzaldehyde without giving the jar a nice big sniff? 
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Fantastische !
The best video link i have ever followed.
Thank you.
(He'd be a bit miffed being called "Oiler", yet accurate in English)
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You're welcome - I am glad you liked it!
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Quote: Originally posted by aga  | | It occurred to me that Sight is our main sense, and so there will certainly be a bias towards simply Seeing things, e.g. digital thermometer.
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Of course there's a 'bias' but there are all kinds of ways of getting round that: having a full sighted assistant is an obvious one.
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My point is that if all of Science is sight-based, then it is likely that many nuances go un-sensed, and likely unexplored.
More exactly, the sheer effort put into where we are now, if it were to be put into say, sound-based 'observations' of the natural world, could well
lead to surprisingly different (and maybe helpful) understanding of it.
Same goes for touch, smell etc.
Imagine the Beginnings, way back a couple of centuries or so, when Chemist #1 notices that when the Hot smoky smell (not reeking) and the weak Rose
smell are put together, then a medium sweet Wine smell always happens.
Extrapolate forwards to now, and imagine all the way.
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It seems to me that although our observations nowadays are done almost exclusively through sight, this is not because the observations themselves are
based on sight. All those high energy experiments at the LHC for example have got nothing to do with light per se, but we choose to present the data
in a visual format just because it is easier to understand. It would be just as easy to represent it in an audio format, for example, it's just that
it would be too difficult to understand the data. For example, the spectrum of hydrogen is represented audibly in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyi5SvPlMXc
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