SCIENCE, THE DESTROYER AND THE CREATOR
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1) Why does the contemporary writer compare scientists with
the sorcerer's apprentice
or Frankenstein?
2) Do you agree with the writer when he declares that "scien
tists have been a favourite scapegoat"?
3) What are the achievements of science which seem to you:
a) most
beneficiai to mankind?
b) most dangerous to mankind?
4) As a conclusion, do y ou agree with the final statement of the
author: "Science has merely provided the means for good or
for bad; and society has seized it for bad"?
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1) Why does the contemporary writer compare scientists with
the sorcerer's apprentice or Frankenstein?
Today, we can say that in a certain
way, man
is overwhelmed by
technological
and scientific progress.
Scientists have invented machines
which were supposed to be the
servants
of men.
In biology and
medicine, for instance, thanks
to
technical deviees, research has been
going
on to make man the ruler of
natural phenomena.
Yet, in many
cases, the machines
have become
the masters.
Computers have
be
come indispensable but their system
is so intricate
that in a case
of emergency, they cannot be repla-
ced by
human intelligence.
This is Il
s'agit
de démontrer
comment le progrès
scientifique amisl'hom
me dans une situation
paradoxale d'asservis
sement.
Donc bien
mettre en évidence la
contradiction entre
ce qui aurait du être et ce qui se passe souvent,
par une inversion iro nique..
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