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• Science: blessing or curse?

  The twentieth century has been the age of science. Modern science has achieved so many wonders. Science is a boon for all of us. Scientific discoveries and inventions have changed our entire life on earth. Time and distance have been killed.
  
  Science has overcome the old miracles of mythology. The recent advantages of science have beaten magic and witchcraft hollow. Reaching Mars and the moon is no longer thought to be impossible.
  
  Electricity is the supreme achievement. It is the crowning glory of science. Electricity is helping us in our houses and factories. Radio, television and telephone are also the greatest miracles of science. Radio brings us the songs of the greatest musicians of the world.
  
  Television enables us not only to hear distant voices but also to see distant functions, matches and other events. Telephones provide us the swiftest possible means of communication. Hats off to Guglielmo Marconi, John Logie Baird and Alexander Graham Bell. Science has made impossible things possible.
  
  The contribution of modern science to medicine and surgery is marvellous, extraordinary and outstanding. Plastic surgery is a new feather in the cap of science.
  
  In physics, the most notable event is the X-ray and also medicine with the invention of penicillin by the great English scientist, Alexander Fleming. Thousands of surgical operations are performed daily and countless human lives are being saved from the jaws of death.
  
  Science has also placed in the hands of man the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb, which are the most hideous and destructive weapons ever invented. Technology and rapid strides in aeronautical engineering have been amazing.
  
  Railways on land, ships on sea and aeroplanes in the air enable us to travel from one place to another in the shortest possible time. Travel has become rapid and comfortable. There is no end to the miracles of science.
  
  Science has added immeasurably to human comfort but has also been a curse to man to some extent. Man has become the slave of machines. One machine can do the work of hundreds of labourers. One factory throws thousands of labourers out of work. Unemployment is ever on the increase.
  
  Another curse of science is that it has made man godless. Science has fed on our bodies but it has starved our souls. How does man benefit himself if he gains the whole world but loses his soul in the game? It has destroyed man's character and personality. Man has lost neighbourliness, sympathy, love, affection and feelings.
  
  Science has created more problems than it has solved. It has brought comforts but it has also brought death with it. The modern civilization has become addicted to scientific inventions.
  
  In the past woman was healthier as she was not assisted by electrical appliances. Since there was neither gas stove nor electric cooker, she used to cook on the hearth. But nowadays, it is a pity to note that modern woman uses only modern electronic appliances, even the electric brush.
  
  Being addicted to those electric household appliances, she tends to become inactive and even looks diseased. If aeroplanes have made long distance travel easy and quick, they are also used for bombing inhabited localities and killing. Bombs have rendered millions of people homeless. In a nutshell, we must use science for the good of humanity and not for its destruction.

  • 23 October 2008
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