We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say ____1_____ that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people___2___ with comparable education in Western Europe.
There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers—how to build them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _____3_____ them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the _____4_____ computer, you don？t have faintest idea. _____5_____
The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of human _____6_____ creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between ____7____science and technology. Lots of people don？t differ between the two. Science ____8____ new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application of is the production of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are really different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the others. _____9_____
Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology, it？s not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the ___10_____ consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.