Our sense of humanity and ethics can and should determine the course of science. It is theoretically possible to cross humans and animals to generate donor organs. We can clone sheep. People in the humanities revel in ambiguities and shades of truth. Their future challenge will be to recognize objective, scientific truths and to decide what to do with that knowledge.
Most scientists love the exactness of science.
Something is true or it is not. The great task of scientists will be to accept the fact that the objective sanctuaries of their laboratories exist in a bigger, social context. It is a balancing act that, in a shrinking world and in a democracy, we are all obligated to perform. We might actually make decisions we can live with. Express Publishing Inc. All Rights reserved.