❞ كتاب The Impact of Science on Society (Routledge Classics) by Bertrand Russell ❝ ⏤ برتراند راسل

SEVEN LECTURES DEALING WITH VARIOUS ASPECTS OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC INFLUENCE

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was an influential British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and political activist. In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in recognition of his many books.

The “Prefatory Note” to this 1952 book states, “This book is based on lectures originally given at Ruskin College, Oxford, England. Three of these---Chapter I, ‘Science and Tradition,’ Chapter II, ‘General Effects of Scientific Techniques,’ and Chapter VI, ‘Science and Values’---were subsequently repeated at Columbia University, New York, and published by the Columbia University Press… The last chapter … ‘Can a Scientific Society be Stable?’ was the Lloyd Roberts Lecture given at the Royal Society of Medicine, London.”

In the first lecture, he observes, “It is hardly till the time of Lister and Pasteur that medicine can be said to have become scientific. The diminution of human suffering owing to the advances of medicine is beyond all calculation. Out of the work of the great men of the seventeenth century a new outlook on the world was developed, and it was this outlook, not specific arguments, which brought about the decay of the belief in portents, witchcraft, demoniacal possession, and so forth.” (Pg. 6)

He continues, “The modern universe is a very different sort of place. Since the victory of the Copernican system we have known that the earth is not the center of the universe. For a time the sun replaced it, but then it turned out that the sun is by no means a monarch among the stars, in fact, is scarcely even middle class… the Milky Way … is one of a collection of galaxies, of which about 30 million are known. It is not easy to maintain a belief in one’s cosmic importance in view of such overwhelming statistics.” (Pg. 13-14)

In the second lecture, he suggests, “Communications have been hitherto the chief factor limiting the size of empires… This difficulty was diminished by railways and the telegraph, and is on the point of disappearing with the improvement of the long-range bomber. There would now be no technical difficulty about a single world-wide Empire. Since war is likely to become more destructive of human life than it has been in recent centuries, unification under a single government is probably necessary unless we are to acquiesce to either a return to barbarism or the extinction of the human race.” (Pg. 26)

He states, “America has invented the phrase ‘yes-men’ for those who flatter great executives. In England we are more troubled by ‘no-men,’ who make it their business to employ clever ignorance in opposing and sabotaging every scheme suggested by those who have knowledge and imagination and enterprise. I am afraid our ‘no-men’ are a thousand times more harmful than the American ‘yes-men.’ If we are to recover prosperity, we shall have to find ways of emancipating energy and enterprise from the frustrating control of constitutionally timid ignoramuses.” (Pg. 37)
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