If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. Technological progress has merely provided us with a more efficient means for going backwards. I think there's a world market for about five computers. Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Science is a community enterprise.
The insights that shape our view of the Universe come not from a single person or a small handful, but from the combined efforts of many. You have to gauge one source against another, and then make judgements about the quality and authoriativeness of each. Back to SCEN103 Home Page. Copyright George Watson, Univ. of Delaware, 1996.