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This-essay is a7310112.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE 731011 The source of one of the limitations of science is the failure of science educators to focus upon the limitations of science. Knowledge is power. Knowledge of one's limitations is power. Ignorance of one's limitations is dangerous, in that it may lead to arrogance through the presumption of power which is not real. Decisions and action based on the presumption of unreal power can be very destructive. It is better to decide not to attempt something which one does not have the power to accomplish; than to be destructive of persons, property, and resources in attempting the impossible. Technocrats often try to solve with techniques many dilemmas which are fundamentally human in character; i.e, dilemmas. Their misguided efforts are often very destructive of persons, property, and resources. The dilemmas remain unresolved because they were not approached in a helpful way. One of the most practical limitations of science is the extent to which scientifically trained individuals are unaware of their own limitations, and so are often the victims of arrogance. Through the efforts of technocrats, non- scientists become the victims of that arrogance. Scientists and technocrats have accomplished much that even well informed persons not long ago regarded as essentially impossible. Science education tends to focus on all the wonder-full things which can be accomplished through the understanding which science offers. Is it any wonder that both scientists and non-scientists often fall into the trap of feeling that if a problem or dilemma can be clearly defined, it will eventually be possible to solve it through the accumulation of understanding and techniques? In a technocratic society many make the error of feeling that it is impossible to conceive a problem or project which can never be solved. Through that error the technocratic society intensifies itself. One of the major limitations of science is that it does not have the power of being helpful towards citizens who are the victims of the false prophecy of technocrats. Scientists who are unaware of the limitations of science---are not liberally educated, even though they may have been trained at a college which falsely presumes to be a liberal arts college. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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