1、The Value ofScienceTo understand the main idea of each paragraphTo explain the value of science To learn to write a summary of the lectureTo learn to understand long sentences in the passage To learn to use the key words and expressions properly.Lead inThe scientist is motivated primarily by curiosi
2、ty and a desire for truth.Who are these scientists?What are the scientific value of their achievements?Tu YouyouDiscovery of a medicine against malariaYuan LongpingFather of hybrid riceMarie CurieDiscovery of RadiumSteven HawkingEnglish physicistA Brief History of Time.Self studyAffiliation at the t
3、ime of the award:California Institute of Technology(Caltech),Pasadena,CA,USAPrize motivation:for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics,with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.Richard Phillips Feynmanwon the Nobel Prize in Physics 1965Born:11 May 1918,New
4、York,USADied:15 February 1988,Lets read and find out how the writer explains his ideas.Guidance and explorationPart 2(paras.3-6)Three values of scienceScientific knowledge enables us to do and make all kinds of things.Science can provide us with intellectual enjoyment.Scientists have the freedom to
5、doubt.Part 3(para.7)Duty of scientiststo demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations _ _ _to declare the value of this freedomto teach how doubt is not to be feared but to be welcomed and discussedParaLecture structureChecking for understanding questionsKey informationPara.1Raise the q
6、uestionWhy did he ask such a question?Para.2What was his attitude to the question?Para.3_What is the first value?Para.4What is the second value?Para.5What is the third value?Para.6Para.7Emphasize _What are the responsibilities?Answer the questionresponsibility AWrite a summary of the lecture transcr
7、ipt.Use the following ideas to help you.His personal experience His ideas on the value of scienceHow to write a summaryWe analyze the structure of the passage and find out the ways that the writer shows his/her ideas.Tick out the main points to make up your summary with concise words.Possible answer
8、:When Richard Feynman was young,he thought the only use for science was to make good things for people.However,after he worked on the atomic bomb,he realized that science could also be used for evil.He wondered what the value of science really was and he decided on three values.The first value is th
9、at scientific knowledge enables us to do and make all kinds of things.The second is the intellectual enjoyment it can provide us with.And the third value is scientistsfreedom to doubt.Paras.1&2 Find out words or phrases negative in meaning.Para.3 What do these“it”refer to?making good thingsscientifi
10、c knowledgePara.4 Find out words or phrases positive in meaning.Para.56 In what way did Richard talk about the third value of science?It is our responsibility as scientists,knowing the great progress that is the fruit of freedom of thought,to declare the value of this freedom;to teach how doubt is n
11、ot to be feared but to be welcomed and discussed;and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.Para.7 What rhetorical device is used in the last paragraph?What effect does it have?The parallel structure is applied here with the use of three to-infinitives.It has a powerful effect
12、to make the audience aware of the significance of the freedom of thought and the value of doubt.When I was younger,I thought science would make good things for everybody.It was obviously useful;it was good.But then during the war I worked on the atomic bomb.This result of science was obviously very
13、serious-it represented the destruction of people and it put our future at risk.I had to ask myself,“Is there some evil involved in science?”work on 从事于从事于get/be involved in 被卷入被卷入.之中之中 take sth seriously 重视，认真对待重视，认真对待Put another way,what is the value of the science I had long devoted myself to-the
14、thing I had loved-when I saw what terrible things it could do?It was a question I had to answer.I thought long and hard about this question,and I will try to answer it in this talk.put another way换句话说换句话说=in other words devote oneself to 致力于致力于The first way in which science is of value is familiar t
15、o everyone:scientific knowledge enables us to do and make all kinds of things.Of course,if we make good things,it is not only to the credit of science;it is also to the credit of the moral choice which led us to good work.Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad-but it does
16、 not carry instructions on how to apply it.Such power has obvious value-even though the power may be negated by what one does with it.familiar(adj)熟悉的熟悉的-familiarity(n)熟悉，通晓熟悉，通晓 sth be familiar to sb 某物为某人所熟悉某物为某人所熟悉sb be familiar with sth 某人对某物很熟悉某人对某物很熟悉 enable sb to do sth 使某人能够做某事使某人能够做某事all ki
17、nds of/all sorts of/various/diverse 各种各样的各种各样的not only.but also.不但不但.而且而且to the credit of 归功于归功于Another value of science is the intellectual enjoyment it can provide us with.When we look at any question deeply enough,we feel the excitement and mystery coming to us again and again.With more knowledge
18、 comes a deeper,more wonderful mystery,inspiring one to look deeper still.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.Thanks to the scientific effort,we ha
19、ve been led to imagine all sorts of things more fantastic than poets and dreamers of the past ever could.提供某人某物提供某人某物provide sb with sth=provide sth for sboffer sb sth=offer sth to sblet sb down 使某人失望使某人失望thanks to 多亏，幸亏，由于多亏，幸亏，由于I would now like to turn to a third value that science has.The scient
20、ist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty,and this experience is of very great importance.When a scientist doesn t know the answer to a problem,he is ignorant.When he has an idea as to what the result is,he is uncertain.And when he is pretty sure of what the result is goin
21、g to be,he is still in some doubt.想要做某事想要做某事would like to do sth feel like doing sth turn to 转向，向某人求助转向，向某人求助ignore(v)忽视忽视-ignorant(adj)无知的，愚昧的无知的，愚昧的-ignorance(n)无知，愚昧无知，愚昧be of+名词名词=adj as to 关于，至于关于，至于doubt(n/v)怀疑怀疑-doubtful(adj)怀疑的怀疑的There is no doubt that.毋庸置疑毋庸置疑 Now,we scientists take it for
22、granted that it is perfectly possible to live and not know.But our freedom to doubt was born out of a deep and strong struggle against authority in the early days of science.In order to progress,we must not forget the importance of this struggle;we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for dou
23、bt.Permit us to question-to doubt-to not be sure.take it for granted 想当然地认为，认为想当然地认为，认为in order to do sth 为了做某事为了做某事permit(v)准许，许可准许，许可(n)许可证，执照许可证，执照permit doing sth允许做某事允许做某事It is our responsibility as scientists,knowing the great progress that is the fruit of freedom of thought,to declare the value of this freedom;to teach how doubt is not to be feared but to be welcomed and discussed;and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.(Adapted from a public lecture by Richard Feynman,an American scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965)
