The document disagrees with the claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. It argues that research is constantly evolving and improving, as the human intellect seeks to discover more. A perfect research is one that satisfies human curiosity and encourages further discovery. Examples of past researchers like Isaac Newton, Wilhelm Rontgen, and Robert Koch are provided to illustrate how their work led to new questions and further research, showing that the hope of perfect research remains. The document concludes that a perfect research is analytical knowledge gathered through proper methods that can generate new questions without reaching a definite stagnant conclusion.
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Alina Sultani
14 September, 2012
Academic Writing
There is no hope of doing perfect research (Griffiths, 1998, p97)
I totally disagree. It is a proven fact in nature, in world and in whole universe that
everything is developing. In this world everyone is aware of theory of evolution and power of
inventions on whole humankind. Human intellect is finding new ways to prove its existence, to
make everyone aware that there will be no stagnancy in thoughts and the surprising results it
brought. Everything is better than its previous competitive product. Every idea is better than one
presented before. In this constantly emerging world there is a hope of a world better than one in
which we live. There is a hope of a wonder that is unknown yet, investigation that will discover
its own milestone to transform itself in to knowledge.
A perfect research is one that encourages human curiosity to know more, to make an
attempt to satisfy his thirst of power. As the term indicates there should be a continuous and
ongoing process, it will be perfect until it craves human appetite to long for more and more. If a
time comes where there is no longing left to do more, to search for more than that day there will
be no hope of doing a perfect research as human intellect will lose its purpose. History proves
that there could not be a time like that as there is no feeling of contentment in human needs;
therefore every research is a perfect research because it results in directing the focus of human
mind to another unturned stone of universe.
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There is vagueness created in the phrase, the term perfection is misunderstood in this
sentence; as it means something complete, without need of modification, the best possible thing
that can be achieved comprising of all characteristics and qualities, but when we talk about
perfect research it means a perfect answer for earlier questions and a perfect question for future
answers. Since mankind has gained its purpose, it is involved in finding answers of the questions
which were pinching its existence and those answers in turn gave rise to new questions, therefore
more answers were giving hope for perfect research and this is the same phenomenon now as
well.
If we take the example of theories of Classical mechanics of Sir Isaac Newton we can find
that it provided great detail of laws of motion and gravity, this research open new routes to
mechanics and then rose the questions about cosmic occurrences which was answered by Max
Planck Quantum theory. Before Isaac Newton’s theory there were many questions unanswered
but his theory gave answer to previous ones and has the ability to raise more questions. This
ability of a research to give rise to new question is misinterpreted as loopholes therefore often
concluded that there is no hope of a perfect research. The term research is ignored, which is to be
perfectly interrogative enough to open new doors of knowledge. On the basis of a perfect
research questions can be generated for a new research. If a research would be imperfect for the
first time then it cannot have answerable questions, as the research would be imperfect questions
will also be imperfect and there will be no way to answer imperfect questions.
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen is the scientist to discover X-rays and considering his research
as perfect one, he was awarded Nobel Prize (nobleprize.org, 2012). Later from this point of
reference MRI, CT scan and Ultra sounds were invented due to which more diseases can be
found and then their treatment was researched. The research of Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen was
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the perfect research as it had given rise to more research and development. Research is a
systematic study and a system is only complete and perfect when it interacts with surrounding,
elsewhere it will become obsolete.
Robert Koch founded bacteria called Mycobacterium (nobleprize.org, 2012). due to his
perfect research organisms such as ‘diphtheria, typhoid, and pneumonia’ were found and then
research started for the cure of diseases. Antibiotic drugs such as penicillin discovered due to a
perfect research to cure harmful diseases. If first research was not perfect then solution will not
be applied to it.
A perfect research means an analytical knowledge gathered by appropriate method,
material and which has followed the required process to reach a conclusion. It does not mean
stagnancy for new questions as if it did word will lose its meaning, only search will will left with
a definite conclusion.