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If we accept that we cannot _ science and technology from changing our world, we can at least try to ensure that the changes they make are in the right directions. In a _ society, this means that the public needs to have abasic understanding of science, so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of _. At the moment, the public is in two mindsabout science. It has come to expect the _ increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue, but it also _ science because it doesn’t understand it.

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譯文:如果我們承認(rèn)，我們無法阻止科學(xué)技術(shù)改變我們的世界，我們至少可以努力確保科技帶來的變化方向正確。在一個民主社會里，這意味著公眾需要對科學(xué)有一個基本的了解，從而可以作出明達(dá)的決定，而不是把決定留給專家去作。目前，公眾對科學(xué)存有矛盾之心。公眾期望科技新發(fā)展帶來的生活水準(zhǔn)的穩(wěn)定提高能繼續(xù)下去，但又懷疑科學(xué)，因為他們不懂科學(xué)。

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