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40. Scholars and researchers should not be concerned with whether their work makes a contribution to the larger society. It is more important that they pursue their individual interests, however unusual or idiosyncratic those interests may seem.
As the speaker asserts, scholars and researches will be better off if scholars concentrate on their individual interests rather than the contribution to the larger society. However, I do agree with this statement insofar that scholars should be more concerned with their interest, but an over emphasis on individual interest may sometimes have negative effects.
In the first place, whether a research will benefit the larger society is hard to be determined, and the over emphasis on the foreseen contributions will possibly undermine many researches which with 不对吧,这里是定从吗 potential benefit to the well-being of society and to discovering似乎和上面一样有问题 the very truth of natural world. How can we evaluate the contribution of a research to the larger society? This may be a question that worth thinking by any one who care about the relationship between science and the progress of civilization, but few of whom could have a perfect answer. Indeed, many of the scientific researches will be contributing the society in such a long period of time from now, which make makes us unable to predict the contributions. Just as the case that how can we judge the strength of a great man when he was only an infant baby是不是用一个就可以了? During in debut of the first car in the world, people laughed at that funny staff because it ran even slower than a carriage. After the advent of the first modern computer, some experts believed that it is useless due to its tremendous cost and weak calculating ability. But just take a look around the world we are living today. Modern transporttransports or transportation make the earth much smaller than ever, and enable us to go to almost everywhere in the world. Modern science of communication supported by powerful computers network makemakes all kinds of information we need so freely available, and taketakes the progress of science into the speedy highway. All this significant convenience and facilities are made by the inventions used to be judged useless. Thus if we put too much emphasis on the contributions of research achievements to the current society, we would be repeating the mistakes of our ancestors.这一段讲了很多例子,但没有点到科学家或者研究者。虽说不一定非要点到,但既然题目主要是谈这个,还是提到更合适一些吧
In the second place, the individual interests will be the best motivation and courage of the scholars in their researches. Complex, difficult, and even dangerous as the scientific researches are, I cannot imagine how scientists could carry out their researches without a strong interest in the subject. The interest in the question and the curiosity to the answer will make the scholars much more positive in studying the extant theories and trying to find the way to the unknown truth. And their interest, acts as an impetus, may even make them more content about what they are studying, and turn the somewhat bald and difficult researches into joyful happiness.
Admittedly, if we lend too much reliance and put too much emphasis on individual interest of scholars, some of the researches may have deleterious consequences to the society. For example , the research of clone technology on human body, if is processed, will be a great challenge to the ethical system of the entire mankind. The clone people could be “produced” in use of human-body experiments, underground trade of human organs, or even for some other more immoral purposes. Although this kind of study meets some scientists’ interest, it should not be allowed to proceed.这一段要是能点到题目里面所说的however unusual or idiosyncratic those interests may seem.就更好啦
To sum up, rather than the contribution to the larger society, scholars should concentrate on their individual interests in their researches, which will encourage them when facing difficulties. However, people should try to limit their interests, by means of law and principle of science study, otherwise, the researches may harm others, ultimately the society.
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