Postawa skromności - czynnik dynamizujący rozwój naukowy

Abstract

On the basis of own biographic studies conducted between 2007 and 2009 and continued from 2013 to 2015 (analyses and interpretation of 70 biographies and autobiographies of known researchers), I proposed in my article and justified a thesis that among the main factors dynamizing individual scientific development, apart from intellectual attributes, are personality traits such as modesty. Scientific development is fuelled mainly by values and the related character (or personality) traits of the researcher. I also put forward an assumption that scientific development of researchers contributes to the progress in science understood as a sphere of culture. The attitude of modesty – the antonym of pride and megalomania is then especially required of a researcher and proves his or her predisposition to discovering the truth and to communicating the research results in an honest manner. Modesty also helps one choose an optimal style of research, which in turn leads to considerable discoveries.