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9.30 政府该不该支持没实用价值的科学研究
Scientific research helps us better understand the origin of creature. Scientific research teaches us how to predict what will happen in this universe. Scientific research tells us the right thing we should do at the moment. Not all scientific researches own great value in practical use, but it is still compulsory for our government to offer support for these researches.
It is unsound to label the scientific research that has no visible benefits at present as useless research. As a matter of fact, many researches that seemed useless at first glance turned out to be of unexpected value in practical use. For instance, when great mathematician Galosis first brought group theory into the palace of math in 17th century, French government and other academic institutions did not attach enough attention to this great discovery and thought that it had no practical use. No one liked to provide funding for this young scientist, and as a consequence, he was frustrated by the acdemic world and committed suicide by joining in a fight that he had knew he would fail. However, nowadays group theory proves to have huge influence on different fields such as computer science, finance and so forth. The cases like this are not rare, which suggest that the government should not overlook the scientific research which seemingly has no practical use.
Besides, I strongly believe that it is not practical potential but human’s determination to pursuing truth of nature and human society that serves as primary driving force of scientific research. Yitang Zhang is a contemporary scientist who studies number theory, and he devotes his whole life studying a hypothesis in that field. Once in an interview, the reporter asked him why he had chosen this field since it seemed to be pragmatically useless. Yitang Zhang said that it was every mathematician’s dream to prove this theory and the theory could help understand the fundamental rule of nature. That is the reason why he worked in a small room year by year in spite of the low salary and harsh working environment. How can our government not provide assistance for these great men who spend every miniute seeking the truth of this world? How can our government be phlegmatic to such genuine aspiration for exploring more knowledge for human society?
Granted, the resource that our government can provide is limited, hence the government should be discreet to infuse fundings into promising researches. However, it is not equal to say they can neglect or abandon the researches which seem to have no practical use at present. It is necessary for the government to support every scientific research that can make contributions to building up the collective knowledge of human society. That is the fastest way our society develops.
From what has been discussed above, we can safely say that it is possible for every overlooked scientific research to bring us significant practical use we cannot anticipate at present. Additionally, the real goal of scientific research is to decipher the secrets of this world. Therefore, it is clear that our government has responsibility to provide support for scientific researches, even if they do not promise any practical use.
感觉这篇写得好渣渣= = |
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