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Pubilic Attitude Towards Science
10151130 陶予涵
With the rapid development of the science and technology, nowadays
our life is much more convenient and colorful than a few years ago.
However, nobody can deny the advance of science has also brought
plenty of dangers and anxiety to the public as the public sometimes lack
enough knowledge about some subjects like nuclear physics. As a result,
the public may wonder if we tend to destroy ourselves with our own
destructive weapon named science, even though it is admitted that a large
sum of wonderful changes have taken place because of science in the past
hundreds of years. Perhaps we might listen to Franklin Roosevelt as well,
“Only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Thus, it is significant that the
public have strong faith in the future of science and human beings.
If the public,the creator of history, clears about how the great
advance of science has changed our world thoroughly, their anxiety about
the adverse impact caused by science may appear a decreasing tendency.
As Steven Hawking stated in Public Attitude Towards Science, the public
needs to enhance a basic understanding of science because only in this
method can they figure out whether science is blame to plenty of
populations and wars on our planet, or something else, like the ignorance
of human beings, mustassume the responsibility. In addition, a large
number of people do not possesses any opportunity to catch up with the latest advance of science throughout the world, which means our
necessary and urgent task to give the public the scientific background will
certainly meet serious difficulties.
In order to educate the public about science, nowadays there are
several effective methods in our society: the Internet, school education,
TV programs, popular books and magazines. In a democracy country, a
free man is able to obtain knowledge from many sources besides books
(Thomas Jefferson).Actually, public media does make a big influence to
the public-taking the Internet for example, World Wide Web puts across
the latest and excellent scientific developments facing billons of
audiences all over the world at the same time. According to Bill Gates,
the Internet can transform our mode to acquire scientific knowledge even
if some people are not willing to join thefictitious world.
Regarding the great power of science and technology, the thinking
towards science of the public largely determines what the tomorrow of
humankind will be. Obviously, well-educated public benefiting from the
Internet, school educations, books, etc. would perform better than before
when they were involved in disasters and dangers related to science. Thus,
from now on we must be devoted to establishing a rational attitude
towards science in the public. As a matter of fact, only if the public
acquires a good understanding of science, can not only science but also
human beings achieve a bright future.
