We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about S1.______
science, but I would say that there are not 5 percent of the
people who are equipped of schooling, including college, to S2.______
understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of
science as people with comparable education in Western Europe. S3.______
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 them to explain the principles of physics S4.______
that have gone into creating the computer, you don't have S5.______
the faintest idea. The failure to understand science leads to
such things like the neglect of human creative power. It al- S6.______
so takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science S7.______
and technology. Lots of people don't distinguish from the two. S8.______
Science is the production of new knowledge that can be
applied or not, and technology is the application of knowledge
to the production of some products, machinery or the like.
The two are really very different, and people who have the
faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for another. S9.______
Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as
soon as it can provide technology, it is net necessarily S10.______
harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast the consequences
of new technology, which can be enormous.
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