{"id":6942,"date":"2014-04-15T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2014-04-15T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T13:00:59","slug":"one-of-my-biggest-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/04\/one-of-my-biggest-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"One of my biggest problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my biggest problems in science certainly is the motivation of finding truth. But as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2014\/apr\/05\/this-column-change-your-life-interestingness-truth\">Oliver Burkeman<\/a> puts it correctly<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even in the world of academia, most people aren&#8217;t motivated by the truth. What they want, above all, is not to be bored<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And he continues to cite <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~samoore\/teach\/bit8852005\/files\/72362.pdf\">Murray Davis<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is it, Davis asks, that makes certain thinkers \u2013 Marx, Freud, Nietzsche \u2013 legendary? &#8220;It has long been thought that a theorist is considered great because his theories are true,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;but this is false. A theorist is considered great, not because his theories are true, but because they are interesting.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yea, yea, that&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my biggest problems in science certainly is the motivation of finding truth. But as Oliver Burkeman puts it correctly Even in the world of academia, most people aren&#8217;t motivated by the truth. What they want, above all, is not to be bored And he continues to cite Murray Davis What is it, Davis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/04\/one-of-my-biggest-problems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One of my biggest problems<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-science-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}