Q)Explain why it is important to know the history of science?
Ans)Science and human affairs are closely linked together, they give rise to what we call as human civilization.Today many questions related to life and happiness worry us. Now how do we answer these questions which are of vital interest to us.One approach is characterized by the famous of Henry Ford, "History is bunk",. According to this approach, all earlier knowledge that is useful is absorbed in the present state of knowledge. What has been left out are only the mistakes about which we should not bother. But this approach does not answer the basic questions.To understand why science is being misused more and more to produce deadly weapons, it is not good enough to blame the scientists who are presently engaged in defence research. Instead we have t look at history in order to show that how knowledge including scientific knowledge has been further used to narrow the interest of dominating groups. Whether in tribal life or in agricultural societies, or in industrial countries, competition for economic domination has led to destructive use of science. Although new discoveries enriched science, they too were employed , in course of time for expanding empires, winning markets and controlling natural resources. And this has always benefited very small sections of people or only a few countries.It can be easily seen that none of the questions which arise out of intimate interaction of science with out lives in general, can be answered without due reference to the history of science.
Ans)Science and human affairs are closely linked together, they give rise to what we call as human civilization.Today many questions related to life and happiness worry us. Now how do we answer these questions which are of vital interest to us.One approach is characterized by the famous of Henry Ford, "History is bunk",. According to this approach, all earlier knowledge that is useful is absorbed in the present state of knowledge. What has been left out are only the mistakes about which we should not bother. But this approach does not answer the basic questions.To understand why science is being misused more and more to produce deadly weapons, it is not good enough to blame the scientists who are presently engaged in defence research. Instead we have t look at history in order to show that how knowledge including scientific knowledge has been further used to narrow the interest of dominating groups. Whether in tribal life or in agricultural societies, or in industrial countries, competition for economic domination has led to destructive use of science. Although new discoveries enriched science, they too were employed , in course of time for expanding empires, winning markets and controlling natural resources. And this has always benefited very small sections of people or only a few countries.It can be easily seen that none of the questions which arise out of intimate interaction of science with out lives in general, can be answered without due reference to the history of science.
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