Impact of science on humanity is undeniable.On the face of it, science and its inventions appear to be an unalloyed blessing.However, if we ponder a unalloyed little,disturbing signs too appear.
Effect on material well-being and mental attitudes;advantages of scientific discoveries in daily life- gadgets to remove drudgery, electricity, communications, transport, entertainment, computers;health- medicine, preventive and curative, control of disease and epidemic;industry, agriculture and economic development improvement of means of production and productivity.As for mental attitude scientific perspective banishes obscurantism and superstition;develops questioning spirit, objective outlook.
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Each of the blessings cited above has a dark side to it-a curse.Material we being has led to crass materialism and consumer culture;discoveries of science have also produced weapons and means of destruction;use of scientific technological means of production and comforts has degraded environment,caused pollution;new diseases resistant to drugs keep coming up technological devices mean to for health field misused to kill-feticide, for instance;spirit of inquiry and positivism, if carried too far, can suppress essential humanity and factually restrict the free range of thought and imagination;gadgets and inventions can make man dependent and, in fact, kill his creativity.
So, is science a blessing or a curse?It would do well to recall what Milton said in a different context-the mid is its own place, it can make a hell of heaven, or a heaven of it is man's responsibility.Man can use it creatively or destructively, turn it into a blessing or get crushed under its curse.
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