Amherst Supplemental Essay

<p>“Rigorous reasoning is crucial in mathematics, and insight plays an important secondary role these days. In the natural
sciences, I would say that the order of these two virtues is reversed. Rigor is, of course, very important. But the most
important value is insight—insight into the workings of the world. It may be because there is another guarantor of
correctness in the sciences, namely, the empirical evidence from observation and experiments.” </p>

<p>Hello guys, As you can see above, I’ve been attempting really hard to tackle this prompt, but it’s just very difficult to even approach it. I would reallly appreciate if some people out there could give me some starting ideas… Thanks a bunch :)</p>

<p>Maybe you can start by asking yourself, “Do I agree with this quote? Is insight really the most important value in the natural sciences? What is ‘correctness’? How can ‘value’ be measured?” </p>

<p>There is no specific thing you have to talk about in the essay. Try to respond to the quote in a way that shows how you think, your beliefs, values, etc. Good luck :)</p>