We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would 1.______say that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with schooling,including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant ofscience than people with comparable education in Western Europe. ?2.______There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers — how tobuild them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So ? ? 3.______if you ask them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into ? ?4.______creating the computer, you don’t have the faintest idea. ? ? 5.______ The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of ? ?6.______human creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between ? 7.______science and technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the 8.______production of new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is theapplication of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or thelike. The two are really very different, and people who have the faculty for onevery seldom have a faculty for the others. ?9.______Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can providetechnology, it is not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast 10.______the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.