Unit 8

Science: Past and Present

Text 1

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS IN MODERN SOCIETY

Natural science is the main characteristic feature distinguishing the present civilization from the other civilizations in the past. From its early beginning in the sixteenth century the developments of science have influenced the course of western civilization more and more until today it plays a most dominant role. It is not much of exaggeration to say that we live in a world that materially and intellectually has been created by science.