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Unit 4
Scientists who changed the world
Extended Reading
The Value of Science
What caused the change?
Science and technology
Lead in
The value of science
Now we’re going to understand the value of science in Feynman’s eyes.
How about the scientist’s opinion?
Richard Feynman[ˈfainmən]
the Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1965
美籍犹太裔物理学家,加州理工学院物理学教授,
在量子电动力学(quantum)领域作出了巨大贡献。
他被认为是爱因斯坦之后最睿智的理论物理学家,
也是第一位提出纳米概念的人。
Lead in
Part 1
(paras.______)
Introducing the topic
1-2
3-6
7
A. Three values of science.
B. Responsibility of scientists.
C. Richard Feynman's personal experience influences his attitudes towards science.
Please read the passage and match the main idea with each part.
Fast reading
Part 3
(para.______)
Part 2
(paras.______)
1.How did the author introduce the topic?
A. By asking a question. B. By making a comparison.
C. By giving an example. D. By quoting a famous saying.
2.What made the author change his attitude to science's value?
A.His common sense. B.His research on science.
C.His knowledge about science. D.His experience during the war.
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I had to ask myself,“Is there some evil involved in science?”
Paras.1-2
Careful reading
Before the war
After the war
Making good things
Being useful
and good
Putting our future at risk
Serious and destruction of people
The author’s internal confusion
(Paras. 1-2)
Angel
Devil[ˈdevl]
What is the value of science?
Careful reading
Paras.1-2
“I thought long and hard about this question...”
1. Enables us _________________________
2. Provide us with _____________________
3. Scientists have the freedom to
Part 2
(paras.______)
Three values of science
3-6
to do and make all kinds of things.
the intellectual enjoyment
doubt
How many values of science are mentioned
in the lecture? What are they?
Careful reading
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad-but it does not carry instructions on how to apply it.
The first value—— enabling power
How do you understand this sentence?
Para.3
“Science is a double-edged sword.”
According to Feynman, who should be blamed if the
power of science is used to do something bad?
It is not the science, but the man misusing it that should be blamed.
In the case of illegal hunting, which one is to blame, the gun or the killer?
We should apply scientific knowledge in a way.
wise/correct
Para.3
The second value—— intellectual enjoyment
Can you circle the expressions with positive meaning Feynman used to create the atmosphere of “enjoyment”.
Para.4
“Thanks to the scientific effort, we have been led to imagine all sorts of things more fantastic than poets and dreamers of the past ever could.”
Chang’e flying to the moon
Chang’e 6 lunar probe
Para.4
The second value—— intellectual enjoyment
The second value—— intellectual enjoyment
Thanks to the scientific effort, we can .
make video calls
Para.4
The second value—— intellectual enjoyment
Doraemon
Thanks to the scientific effort, we have
.
smart robots.
Para.4
The second value—— intellectual enjoyment
dream
reality
“Never concerned that the answer may let us down, with pleasure and confidence we turn over each new stone to find unimagined strangeness leading on to more wonderful questions and mysteries.”
How can we achieve that?
Para.4
explore
.
confidently
The third value—— freedom to doubt
When a scientist doesn’t
know the answer to a problem, .
When he has an idea
as to what the result is, .
When he is pretty sure of
what the result is going to be, .
he is ignorant
he is uncertain
he is still in some doubt.
ignorance
uncertainty
doubt
The more you know,
the more you know you don’t know.
Para.5
This is how you grow!
The third value—— freedom to doubt
“In order to progress,...we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Permit us to question-to doubt-to not be sure.”
Law of Universal Gravitation
Para.6
The third value—— freedom to doubt
think differently
• To declare the value of the freedom to doubt.
• To teach how doubt is not to be feared but to be welcomed and discussed.
• To demand this freedom to all coming generations.
Para.7
What are the duties of scientists?
Careful reading
What is the value of science?
Personal struggle
The third value (point 3)
The second value (point 2)
The first value (point 1)
Summary
总
总
分
Responsibility
Be a man to explore the world ,to doubt the world !
做一个探索世界的人,做一个敢于质疑的人!
Summary
1.Compulsory:
Review what we have learnt and preview language points.
2.Optional:
List the rhetorical devices used in the text.
Homework
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