The Contemporary Value Of Cultivating Scientific Spirit

The scientific spirit has been started and developed itself gradually to a kind of common conviction, standard of value and norm of human behaviors coupled with the development of science. The scientific spirit refers to the intrinsic spirit and soul of the science and the scientific activity, and it is also a prerequisite for human being to form and insist on the correct outlook on life and world outlook. The connotation of scientific spirit is always changing dynamically, and the range of its function and effect is still expanding continually. With the evolution by history, the connotation of scientific spirit has exceeded the science limit, and started to go deep into the field of economy, society, culture and all-road-development of human being. On direction of Marxism, the paper investigates the realistic significance of scientific spirit, by analyzing and grasping its historic connotation. Only base on this, can we probe the contemporary value of cultivating scientific spirit.The paper proposes actively a popular cultivating scientific spirit, is to propose to form a kind of manner of thinking and behavior habit surrounding by the atmosphere of rational science and matter-of-fact attitude. Actually, cultivating scientific spirit means integrating and extending the scientific spirit at the angle of function and significance, and appealing to the society to understand and insist on the dialectical unity of the rational tool and rational value of the scientific spirit, so as to promote the all-road-development of economy, society and human. For some reasons, such as historic,culture and society, lots of serious phenomena that scientific spirit being absent are existing in many fields in our society. These phenomena will enhance the period-pressing sense for cultivating scientific spirit to a certain extent, and promote the necessity for this paper to probe how to realize cultivating scientific spirit.Cultivating scientific spirit, could ensure the direction of human civilization, lead the renovation of advanced culture, accelerate the current construction of harmonious society, and promote the process of socialist modernization.