It is only knowledge produced with difficulty that we truly value. To what extent do you agree with this statement?
This shows how much value knowledge obtained through hardship and time
has when compared to knowledge or information obtained quickly without much proper
testing.
1Leslie A. Pray, ‘’Discovery of DNA Structure and Function: Watson and Crick’’, http://
www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-dna-structure-and-function-watson-397,
10.01.2016.
2Stefan Riedel, ‘’Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination’’, https://
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/, 10.01.2016.
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I think that knowledge in natural sciences can have less value to us when compared to
human sciences even though it is, in most cases, produced with difficulty. There were
many scientists that carried out experiments to study plant life. It was in the 1600s when
the first reasonable hypothesis was made by Jan Van Helmont (although only partially