Issue40【0710G Victors互助小组】第10次作业

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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."
1.同意作者的观点，因为没有一个很好的界定标准来确定他们的研究是否会对社会有益处，一些看起来没什么用的研究或许只是解决了大家的小小的疑惑，在当时对社会并没有什么作用，但在以后的日子里可能能成为一些社会发展过程中不可缺少的理论基础。
2.个人的兴趣能使得人们更加有动力,人们对自己感兴趣的东西更倾向与投入更大的激情,而那些对社会有益的东西,的确需要人研究,那也最好是让那些对他感兴趣的人去研究,如果让不感兴趣的人研究,他们甚至会觉得这种工作成为一件很厌烦的事情,这样会让过程变慢并且出现一些问题. 完美
3.但是,科学家也应该尽力做一些能对社会有益的研究,因为现在社会中还是存在着很多问题的,如果没有他们的帮助,是很难解决的,如果连眼前的问题都不能解决的话,很难保证能有很好的条件去解决长远问题或者是安心下来做自己感兴趣的研究.

The speaker of the topic makes an assertion that scholars and researchers should concentrate on their interests in spite of being concerned with whether their work makes a contribution to the larger society. It's tempting when considering that whether the research is valuable for society or not, interest enable the scholars and researchers to devote their full enthusiasm to the work, which maybe a huge wealth of our future. While the claim seems undoubted in abstract, it still overlooks some practical problems.

Admittedly, the boundary of whether their work benefits the larger society is ambiguous. Those which seems useless today or just solve the tiny difficulties we desire to know may serve as an base for the further study. Sometimes, even the scholars and researchers can not decide which research is worthwhile, without mentioning others. Thus the only guide for their work is work itself which appeals to the researchers. Therefore we can not ignore those interests, even how unusual or idiosyncratic they are. Let’s bring our discussion to a more present and practical context. A concrete example appealing illustrates this point. Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance is at first just Mendel's interest in plant. If he was concerned with the contribution to the larger society, he can be a good priest and teacher, but the foundation of genetic engineering maybe delayed for years.

Moreover, the curiosity and interests roused by the problems they come cross provide us the impetus to overcome the obstacles we have to face It's our human nature that we poured our energy and passion into the things attracting us and do our endeavor to ensure the results perfect. Even the immediate social problems should leave to the researchers that feel interested in them. If such subjects are handled by those who have no interest in them, these researchers may even consider them as boring missions, their attitudes decide that they may not take the missions seriously, which may result in a slow process and some problems.

However, if possible, scholars and researchers should try to do make a contribution to the larger society as well, for there are lots of problems still existing in our society, which, without the help from them, are hard to be settled. If we can not solve the immediate problem, the condition to make researched they interested in, to some degree, may not be guaranteed. After all, many researches are supported by the government and other organizations, if the government and these organizations are busy coping with the problems of larger society, how can the researches get funds or some necessities?

In sum, taking all these factors into account, the science can be developed only if the interests are put in the first place and, at the same time, we can not neglect the demand of larger society. Therefore, we should find a balance between them and thus scholars and researches can be completely devoted into what they are interested without disturbing by other problems.