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科学家的研究和科学的进步 40
1. 贡献取决于? 不明确 Who is to decidewhich areas of academic inquiry are worthwhile? Scholars cannot be left todecide. nor can regulators and legislators , who would bring to bear their ownquirky notions about what would be worthwhile, and whose susceptibility to influencerenders them untrustworthy in any event.
人都擅长自己喜欢的事情 By human nature weare motivated to pursue those activities in which we excel. To compel scholarsto focus only on certain areas would waste their true/intellectual talents.
Besides , lackinggenuine interest or motivation, a scholar would be unlikely to contributemeaningfully to his or her “assigned ” field of study.
History is ladenwith充满 unusual claims by scholars and searchersthat turned out stunningly极富魅力的 significant that the sun lies at the center of out universe, thattime and space are relative concepts, that matter consists if discreteparticles, that humans evolved from other life-forms, to name a few.可更换例子
当时可能没有用,但是长久以后却有用了
The unusualresearch area does not immediately address society’s pressing socialproblems. Yet in the long term, it mightbe necessary to …
一定程度上浪费了纳税人的钱
Should not allowtheir faculty to indulge their personal intellectual fantasies at taxpayerexpense.
Earnest study inthe humanities affords us to know what is best for society, and helps usunderstand and approach societal problems more critically, creatively, andeffectively.
科学的发展在于不同的思想
Throughout thehuman intellectual history , it is always the different schools of thought thatboost the human scientific and technological progress.
科学技术对人类的影响
Nowadays ,incredible change in vehicles for transportation and road improvement have madetravel mot only safer but faster and more comfortable as well. High-speed magnetic levitation trains(高速磁悬浮列车) cantransport people safely at speeds of up to 300 miles an hour in parts of Europeand Japan. The Concorde jet can transport people from New York to London
in less than four hours in luxurious comfort. There have even been spacetourists who have traveled into outer space to the International Space Stationand returned safely to Earth. Not only have the transportation vehiclesthemselves been greatly enhanced, but the highways and railways that thevehicles use have also been tremendously improved. To be in a nutshell, moreplaces than ever befored are now accessible by rapid and reliabletransportation.