Science and Change: Hopes and Dilemmas

Science and change: hopes and dilemmas.

small science , big hopes

A images of tumor cells being vaporized in beams of colorful light, a video produced by the National Cancer Institute proclaims, “the science is at our fingertips.” The science being referred to, which is 80,000 times smaller than the breadth of a single ridge of skin on a human fingertip, is cancer nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, the study of science on a level the width of ten hydrogen atoms,...

National Science Foundation: Origins, hopes, and aspirations.

The origins of the National Science Foundation were in the visions of many scientists and federal statesmen during a decade of profound changes in the institutions of American science. But the concepts that underlie the Foundation reach back into the beginnings of our scientific endeavor in Colonial America; Franklin and Jefferson, scientists and statesmen, paved the way for close association b...

Ignorance and Science Dilemmas, Perspectives

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New Hopes and Serious Potentials for a Collaborative Network on Cognitive Science and Technology among ECO Member Countries