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Society is generally amenable to subsidizing science’s expensive
Society is generally amenable to subsidizing science’s expensive
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Society is generally amenable to subsidizing science’s expensive
machinery, which at some point will provide civilization with another advance
on the scale of relativity theory, but such heedless optimism can mislead one
Line into the notion that the aim of science is to find the "meaning" of the world.
(5) That there must be a meaning seems certain, for otherwise there could be no
such a thing as progress, but we must also acknowledge that as science keeps
uncovering more and more secrets, it progresses in the way that computations
in the infinitesimal calculus keep approaching nearer and nearer to infinity
without ever getting there, and we must not assume that progress should seek a
(10) final end to the quest for knowledge.
The amateur scientist Goethe, though vehemently and mistakenly opposed
to Newton’s mechanistic model of reality, demonstrated the dangers of his
co/league’s positivist approach, for though his science was bad science, his
scientific writings are not bad philosophy. Goethe demanded that science should
(15) always hold to the human scale, opposing the use of the microscope on the
grounds that what cannot be seen with the naked eye should not be seen, that
what is hidden from us is hidden for a purpose. In this, Goethe was a scandal
among scientists, whose first, firm, and necessary principle is that if something
can be done, it should he, and his furious denial of Newton was more than
(20) merely the bloodshot jealousy of one great mind drawing a bead on another.
Goethe’s theory of light is wrong insofar as the science of optics is concerned,
yet in the expression of his theory Goethe achieves a pitch of poetic intensity
that is as persuasive, in its way, as anything Newton did: there is, Goethe
suggested, a world beyond the current state of science.
(25) At the end of the 19th century, before Einstein, professors were steering
students away from physics because they believed little was left undiscovered
about the nature of physical reality. As we approach the end of the 20th
century, we are still guilty of hubris: probably a Unified Field Theory will be
achieved, and will seem for a time, perhaps even as long as the period between
(30) Newton’s Principia and Einstein’s first paper on the theory of relativity, to
explain everything; but then a Heisenberg or a Gdel will come forward and
unravel the entire structure. Einstein correctly remarked more than once how
strange and suspicious it is that reality, as we know it, keeps proving itself
amenable to the rules of man-made science. Our thought extends only as far as
(35) our capacity to express it, and thus what we consider reality is only that stratum
of the world that we have the faculties to comprehend. There is a truth that
scientists not blinded by hubris, or a cramped imagination, have always
acknowledged: that there is no end to the venture. [br] The author discusses Goethe’s theories in the second paragraph primarily to do which of the following?
选项
A、suggest that the purpose of science is not simply to make discoveries but to influence the way humans regard the world
B、illustrate the dangers of rejecting a mechanistic view of the world
C、investigate the predictive efficacy of a scientific methodology that eschews certain types of experiments
D、provide an argument for why scientists should not be amateurs
E、demonstrate how easily a variation in scientific methodology can arouse controversy among scientists
答案
A
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