Divulgando a ciência: qual a relação entre imaginação e subjetividade na metodologia científica

Abstract

Currently, due to its relevance and ability to provide us with technologies never before imagined, science enjoys a special status in academia and society. Scientists are seen as highly rational people in their ways of analyzing reality, never using subjective and imagery aspects. In view of this, this work aimed to clarify the relationship between imagination and subjectivity, within the scope of science itself, as a way of disseminating it both to the academic and "lay" public, given the stereotype that science imposes on itself, spreading as the only form of purely rational and objective knowledge. For this, we use poetry as a means of comparison, and we came to the conclusion that scientists also use subjectivity and imagination, since the representation of ideas and the formulation of hypotheses and theories suggested that our intuition creates different ways of approaching the studied phenomena.