This document discusses the need for consilience, or the integration of knowledge from different disciplines, to advance science and address societal challenges. It provides examples of prominent historical figures like Aristotle, da Vinci, and Yonam Park who exemplified consilience in their work. The document argues that taking a broad, interdisciplinary approach like these thinkers did can help drive new discoveries by finding commonalities across fields. It cites Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA's structure as an example of consilience leading to a breakthrough. The overall message is that Korea should develop as a nation of scholars that can integrate knowledge from multiple domains to solve problems.

1. The 21st-century Global Talent and the Consilience of Knowledge
Jae Chun CHOE
Division of EcoScience

5. 2010
The 100th, Japanese Annexation
The 60th, Korean War
The 50th, 4-19 Revolution
The 30th, 5-18 Pro-democracy Movement

6. Do you believe in miracles?

7. Do you believe in miracles?

8. Do you believe in miracles?

14. Do you know what the national hobby
for the Korean people is?
There is a field for which every Korean
has an expertise. Do you know what it is?

15. It’s the bashing of the Ministry of Education!!!

16. 열공
Study hard!

17. 2010
From the century of founding nation
건국(建國) 100년
To the century of stabilizing nation
안국(安國) 100년

18. The Great Nation of Scholars

20. The Great Nation of Scholars
that is also truthful and warm-hearted

21. We do homeworks quite well, but …

22. We do homeworks quite well,
but can’t write questions for others to follow.

23. We do subcontract work,
but can’t design the whole thing!

24. National income of $20,000

25. Consilience
(統攝) What’s in common?
•Aristotle
•da Vinci
•Yonam Park
•Dasan Cheong

26. Consilience
“Dig wide if you wish to dig deep!”
Breadth
Depth
Modified from DW Lee

27. Consilience
통섭(統攝)

28. J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick. 1953. Molecular structure of nucleic acids:
A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature 171: 737-738.

29. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962
Francis James Maurice
Crick Watson Wilkins

30. James D. Watson. 1968. The Double Helix. New York: Adeneum.

31. Behind the success of molecular biology
Erwin Schrödinger

33. “Good fences make good neighbors”
“좋은 담이 좋은 이웃을 만든다”
„Mending wall‟--Robert Frost

34. The Great Nation of Scholars