Uses & Abuses of Modern Science

We live in an age of science. We feel the influence of science at every moment. Science has made its way in almost every sphere of life. It has made our life easy and comfortable. Indeed, modern civilization is based on the gifts of science. Wherever we cast our eyes. We see the achievements of science.

Many are the blessing of science. It has enriched all departments of human like – industry, commerce, communication, medicine and what not. In fact, science has revolutionized our way of life. We take the advantages of science from dawn to night. Of course, the people in a city enjoy them more than people in villages do.

Science has changed the life style of a modern man. The alarm clock wakes him up at any hour he likes. The tram, bus or the motor car carry him to his school, college or office. The electric lift takes him to the top floor of a multi-storied building in the twinkling of an eye. The quick means of travel has made the world a very small place to live in. The computer, the greatest gift of 20^th century, has relieved man from manual and mental labour to a great extent. After his day’s work in his working place when he feels bored, they may enjoy a film in a cinema hall or at home his T.V. which gives relief to his tired nerves. Through telephone he speaks to his distant friends or consults his physician. He can get the benefit of modern drugs r surgery which are the products of science. And now man is probing into the secrets of the outer space. Thus we see that science has minimised our hardship and has increased pleasures and comfort and as a whole the span of life. In a word; the inventions of science have given us comfort, leisure and security and civilization is now a common possession, not the privilege of the few. Thus we see. it supplies us with our daily bread, curse our maladies, shortens distance, bridges gulfs and brings comforts and lifts up the veil of nature’s mystery.

Yet there are some abuses of science. Science has not only invented a robot. but has turned a man into a robot in some cases. As Charles Chaplin said “In this age of scientific inventions, we THINK too much, we FEEL too little”. It snatches the soul of a man when he runs a race in med pursuit of material prosperity. Science, at the same time, has given him frightful nuclear weapons. If there be any third world war, it will abolish the whole mankind from this planet. Peace on earth is at peril now. But science cannot be blamed for this. We can use fire for cooking our food or burning other’s houses. It is not the fault of fire but of its users. Likewise, man is responsible for the abuses of science. It fully depends on us whether we shall have our science to destroy the creation or to conquer hunger, poverty and disease for a happy and prosperous world.