Scientific Thinking

Man is the only thinking animal in this universe. Therefore man is dominating over other species of our planet. Brain is the thinking organ of human beings. Cerebrum is the part where our thoughts are being processed. In the brain of scientists and great thinkers this portion of the brain will have more folds and more grey cells.

All of us think actively about many things. Many a time our thought process is biased, prejudiced, distorted and partial. This type of illogical thinking is the most unscientific form of thinking. It should be avoided. On the other hand if we think rationally, with proper analysis and justification then we are thinking like a scientist.

Scientific thinking is a mode of thinking about any subject  where the thinker improves the quality of his thinking skillfully, taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking, and imposing intellectual standards upon them. So scientific thinking is a mental process in which mental faculties like reasoning, logic, and analysis of the thought processes are  stromed by  our brain.

The essential factors governing scientific thinking are: clarity, accuracy, relevance, logic, precision, significance, completeness, fairness, depth. Scientific thinking is  very important to all of us to tackle and handle different types problems that we may come across in our daily life. It helps us to critically analyse the problem, and enable us to come to a correct conclusion that can be tested.

The characteristics of scientific thinking are:

• self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective.
• Seeks to quantify, explain, and predict relationships via observations, experiments, exact measurement.
• formation of  hypotheses, theories or laws.
• Seeks to test, modify and refine hypotheses.
• Following  diagram indicates the essential steps involved in Scientific thinking. 
  
  
  
  Scientific thinking Method is objective and not subjective. It is systematic and methodical. The entire process of scientific thinking is Inductive-Deductive. On the whole Scientific Method of thinking is a process for framing  and testing solutions to all types of problems.It is eliminating the elements of faith or bias or prejuiduice and the process is valid in any part of the world. Further, it can be adapted by anybody, not necessarily by a scientist. In other words it encourages layman to think, act and solve the problems  like a scientist.
  Human beings are the most evolved and thinking animals in this universe. Brain is the think- tank of our body. It should be trained to think scientifically. Scientific thinking helps man to become more critical, rational and analytical. The method of scientific thinking is a very good tool for decision making. Scientific thinking method is a strategy to approach his problem as he can be sure of an answer. The benefit of scientific thinking method is that the answer can be verified and tested. Hence, scientific thinking should be encouraged.
  The more we practice scientific thinking for solving our problems our brain will be tuned to the steps of scientific method. It will become a way of life. We develop scientific attitude. Scientific attitude is approaching the problems without any prejudice and analysing the problems and arriving at a conclusion after careful experimentation without mistakes.
  In this method, our living becomes easy as problems get solved in a much easier way. Our self confidence and morale gets a boost if we are able to solve problems without any difficulty. So living becomes a joyful experience.