The morning light shone into the large classroom in the east courtyard, coating Mr. Zhao with a layer of glittering golden light.
His gaze slowly passed over the disciples. After a year of his diligent teaching, they had become the top mathematical talents in the Ming Dynasty.
Next, it’s time to push them and sell that crucial step.
Then I heard Teacher Zhao say in a deep voice:
"There have been countless sages over the past three generations, each using their own method to understand and explain the world. But so far, including Tessie, all the great scholars on this earth are philosophers."
"Philosophy uses speculation to find the origin and laws of the world. Therefore, every philosopher can put forward his own theory to explain the laws of the universe, but no one can convince anyone."
"Science, unlike all philosophy, does not rely on subjective speculation, but mathematics and experiments to find the laws of the world."
After finishing speaking, he said word by word: "This is the biggest difference between us and others!"
"Yes, Master!" The disciples responded in unison. This unique feeling is so good.
"Why should mathematics and experiments be used instead of speculation? Because among all disciplines, mathematics is the one that can best obtain clear and accurate conclusions. Everyone has already studied Ou Zi's "Elements of Geometry". He started from the five postulates As soon as we started, we derived hundreds of accurate propositions. This unparalleled accuracy is in sharp contrast to the vagueness of philosophers!"
“And one of the fists of scientific research is mathematics, so it can bring us accurate knowledge!”
"The other fist is experimentation. Xunzi said, 'If you don't climb a high mountain, you don't know how high the sky is; if you don't go to a deep stream, you don't know how thick the earth is.' As the saying goes, 'If you don't see things with your eyes and ears, how can you guess whether they exist or not? ?’ So although science advocates bold assumptions, it must abandon any subjective conjecture. Because our intuitive judgments are too inaccurate, the only things we can really believe in are mathematical calculations and objective experiments!”
"It is precisely because of this that science is so reliable! It allows us to avoid arguing with others and only need to draw conclusions according to scientific methods!"
"For example, if others say that the sun, moon and stars revolve around the earth, then we will build a telescope and let them see it themselves. For another example, if they do not believe in the existence of gravity, we will calculate it for them!"
“Science is there, whether you believe it or not, it will not affect its correctness!”
"This is why as a teacher, we must actively cut off the relationship with philosophy, because we are fundamentally different. Although we as teachers often mention Xunzi's views, and do not deny the origin of science and Xunzi to the outside world, as long as we refine these two fists , you can say goodbye to all philosophy. From now on, you can stand on your own and independently develop countless accurate, practical knowledge that can change the world!"
"Long live science!" The disciple couldn't help shouting.
Zhao Hao gave him a helpless look, but other disciples also shouted.
"Long live science! Master is great!"
That kind of deep admiration almost made Mr. Zhao drunk. It greatly boosted his recently weakened self-confidence.
He scratched his head in confusion and glanced at Ma Xianglan, who was hiding his mouth and laughing. He couldn't understand why he just started talking and the disciples were so excited.
When I went to heaven, I didn't even shock them like this.
The reason why he couldn't understand the excitement of his disciples was because he was looking back at this period of scientific history from God's perspective. Naturally, you will feel that these things are very simple and take it for granted.
But the disciples who came into contact with this for the first time were deeply shocked by this epoch-making courage and genius.
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After the disciples calmed down their excitement, Zhao Hao continued:
"Okay, after solving the 'why', I will teach you the 'how'."
"Yes, Master!" The disciples looked solemn and pious.
"Actually, I have already given you all the templates for scientific research methods." Teacher Zhao said in a deep voice.
“Elements of Geometry?” Ying Wu’s disciples asked softly.
"Yes, the most important thing about this book is not how many geometric propositions it proves." Zhao Hao glanced at Hua Shuyang and Wang Dingjue, yes, he is talking about you two.
The two beasts have conquered Chapter 8 one after another and are heading towards Chapter 9
"It is the axiomatic system established by Ou Zi. He was extremely talented and gave five basic postulates, and then logically and logically derived more than 400 propositions step by step from these five postulates."
“Because he uses precise mathematical methods,Therefore, as long as the five postulates are not overturned, all the derived propositions will definitely not cause problems. Ouzi's scientific system is called an axiomatic system. "
"This method of starting from a few most basic and obvious axioms and finally deriving the entire subject system step by step is to teach you the scientific research methods as a teacher."
Zhao Hao said, looking across all the students again, and said firmly: "No matter which direction you study in the future, you should conduct it under the guidance of this method."
"Yes, Master," the disciples responded solemnly.
"In order to make you sure, I asked Secretary Ma to copy this "Mathematical Principles of Natural Science" and send it to you for study."
Zhao Hao said sorry to Newton in his heart, your epoch-making masterpiece will be under the name of someone else. But considering that Niuzi often does this kind of thing, I don't feel particularly guilty.
“I just don’t know, when Niu Zi goes to school a hundred years later, when he reads this book, will he feel particularly warm?
“I guess he would have felt this way when he was learning to use a prism to see the spectrum when he was a child, right?
I hope he doesn't burst into tears.
"This book "Mathematical Principles of Natural Sciences" completely refers to the method of "Elements of Geometry". First it gives a few definitions, then gives several laws of motion and reasoning rules, and then through a series of reasoning and calculations, we get some Universal conclusions build an axiomatic Neo-Confucian system."
"Finally, these conclusions are applied to practice, and finally compared with experimental data and observational data, which is a complete mechanical scientific research."
Then Teacher Zhao calmly used the great incitement technique to the disciples:
“I hope you can use this method to establish your own axiomatic scientific system in the future!”
"We remember Master!" The heartbeats of the disciples were beating too fast. After following the teacher for a year and a half, they finally understood the direction they were heading.
Follow the different paths opened up by teachers, move forward into different fields, and ultimately legislate this subject! Become Master’s successor in this discipline!
Even Secretary Ma couldn’t help but feel excited, imagining whether she should also choose a subject and become the heir to the young master’s mantle in the future?
But she quickly gave up the idea.
“Well, the slave family prefers to be a unique secretary than one of several heirs to the mantle.
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