Science and technology have greatly improved food quality and quantity, transportation, health, sanitation, and communication. These benefits of science and technology are not available to all of the people in the world. Men and women have made a variety of contributions throughout the history of science and technology. Although men and women using scientific inquiry have learned much about the objects, events, and phenomena in nature, much more remains to be understood. Science will never be finished.
Many people choose science as a career and devote their entire lives to studying it.
Many people derive great pleasure from doing science. 1 Copyright 1995 National Academy of Sciences. All Rights Reserved. If you find this site useful in your classroom, please share this with us. All rights reserved worldwide.