Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Advantages and disadvantages of science











Advantages of Science :
1. Science has brought about many outstanding advantages to human beings.
2. Science has made traveling easy and efficient by the inventions of airplanes, bullet trains, and ships.
3. The inventions of modern vehicles have shortened the distances.
4. For travel within a country, there are modern and advances models of buses and cars, providing a luxury lifestyle.
5. To move within a city, people use motorbikes, bicycles, and taxi. Not only traveling is advanced now, but everything has a big impact on science.
6. Science has changed the teaching methods, for example, teachers used blackboards and chalks in the past, but now they are using multimedia projectors.
7. The discovery of mechanization, better seeds, better techniques of irrigation and pest control, has worked to increase productivity levels on farms.
8. The invention of the computer has assisted the process of calculation in laboratories
9. Technology has made communication much simpler in recent times.
10. Science has brought about groundbreaking solutions to numerous deadly diseases.
11. Man is able to explore the space extensively because of the wide-scale development in technology.
12. The vast improvements made in the field of medicine have served to lengthen our life expectancy and to reduce the rate of infant mortality.
13. Our life has become healthier and longer.
14. Modern hygiene, sanitation, medicine, and surgery are conquering more and more physical and mental ills day by day. We now know and experience the joys of good health.


Disadvantages of Science :
1. On the destructive side, science has invented such disastrous weapons which can ruin everything in seconds.
2. The inventions of laser beams, cobalt bombs, and megaton bombs have increased the chances of human destruction thus if these weapons are used, they would spell disaster for the whole of mankind.
3. Though we welcome these blessings of science, we have to consider the darker side of this science also.
4. Machines have led to unemployment.
5. They have polluted water and atmosphere. They have caused noise pollution.
6. Factories have led to slums where human beings live in squalor.
7. Our moral and spiritual progress has failed to keep pace with our scientific progress.
8. We have allowed science to master us instead of using it as our servant.
9. Machines make us mechanical, deaden our sensibilities, stifle our creative talents, force mechanical regularity, uniformity and boredom upon us, increase our wants and desires, and tend to make us selfish, greedy and cruel.
10. Geographical distance has, no doubt, vanished, but the gulf between the minds and hearts of man has widened.
11. Machines have given man leisure, but man misuses it to get cheap and vulgar entertainment which destroys his physical and mental health.
12. Again, science has put in our hands such fiendish weapons as the nuclear bomb, the guided missile, and means of chemical and biological warfare.

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