The Limits of Science
Mariya Artyushok
This essay was an assignment for my English 101 class. My
professor Michael Lake taught me how to be realistic and how
to critically think in my everyday life. At first, I barely knew
anything about science and why people value it so much, but
then with the help of the Mortimer Adler’s definitions and Mr.
Lake’s lectures I came to a conclusion that science is limited.
Known as the best way to measure the universe with
different techniques, science still has the limits on what it
cannot measure. The editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica,
Mortimer Adler defined three main terms science, knowledge,
and reality and appearance. Adler was also an advocate that
suggested for students to read the “Great Books” instead of the
books about the books. Most of all, he believed that realistic
philosophy of Aristotle can influence the idealism in our
culture. Moreover, Adler many times came to a conclusion that
we don’t know what is true or real, but science still continues
its studies. From what I read I found science to be limited
because it can only study the things that can be measured but
not the things that cannot be measured.
So, what is science? How Adler defines the word science is
“observational or investigational sciences, sometimes called