Well put. Modern science is an incredibly high-tech business in so many fields. Whether it's an expedition to Antarctica, building a new radio telescope or even "just" buying an electron microscope - you're gonna have to pay, and you're gonna have to pay alot.
There are still a handful of areas where amateurs could in theory do proper research without spending a few million dollars on lab equipment - ecology for example. But then we get to the problem of necessary knowledge: it take a few years of hard study until you even know the right questions to ask, which ones have already been asked, and how to interpret the results that you get.
In short: there is no short cut to modern science.
There are still a handful of areas where amateurs could in theory do proper research without spending a few million dollars on lab equipment - ecology for example. But then we get to the problem of necessary knowledge: it take a few years of hard study until you even know the right questions to ask, which ones have already been asked, and how to interpret the results that you get.
In short: there is no short cut to modern science.