We live in a society in there is a lot of talk about
62. ______ science, but I
would say that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with
schooling, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We
are more ignorant of science as people with comparable
63. ______ educations in
Western Europe. There are a lot of kids who know everything
about computers--how to build them, how to take them apart, how to write
programs for games. So if you ask them
64. ______ to explain about the principles of
physics that have gone 65.
______ into creating the computer, you don’t have the faintest idea.
66. ______ The failure to understand science leads
to such things like the neglect of the human creative power.
67. ______ It also takes
rise to a blurring (模糊) of the distinction
68. ______ between science and technology. Lots of people
don’t differ between the two. Science is the production
69. ______ of new
knowledge that can be applied or not, since
70. ______ 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 the other. Science in
itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology,
it is not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned how to forecast the
71.
______ consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.