Von
"Most scientists feel that there is a need for better communication
between themselves and the general public. Politicians make many
decisions relating to science and technology, but scientists are
often convinced that the wrong decisions were made because of
ignorance of the true issues. Popular movements frequently take
up causes without a correct assessment of the science involved--or
so it appears to many scientists. How can these misunderstandings
be avoided?
In this book I have tried to deal with what I think may be the
heart of the difficulty, the confusion that exists in people's minds
between science and technology. The relationship between the
two is a complex and changing one. I have taken seven themes in
science and technology, and have tried to explain in straightfor-
ward language how they have developed. The seven themes, in
Chapters 2 to 8, can be briefly summarized as: steam engines,
photography, electric power, radio transmission, electronics, large
molecules, and nuclear power. All of these themes belong to what
is called hard science, which is the kind of science that can be for-
mulated mathematically, and can be tested by experiment..."
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Land