Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.
Science is not inherently good.
If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so
You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?
Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
