【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 changed a great deal in the last hundred years, and it is likely to change even more in the next people would like to stop these changes and go back to what they see as a purer and simple as history shows, the past was not that was not so bad for a privileged minority, though even they had to do without modern medicine, and childbirth was highly risky for for the vast majority of the population, life was nasty and , even if one wanted to, one couldn’t put the clock back to an earlier and techniques can’t just be can one prevent further advances in the if all government money for research were cut off, the force of petition would still bring about advances in , one cannot stop inquiring minds from thinking about basic science, whether or not they were paid for we accept that we cannot prevent science and technology from changing our world, we can at least try to ensure that the changes they make are in the right a democratic society, this means that the public needs to have a basic understanding of can be done to harness this interest and give the public the scientific background it needs to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain, the greenhouse effect, nuclear weapons, and genetic engineering? Clearly, the basis must lie in what is taught in schools.─Stephen Hawking(出自Select Readings)The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits who lived near a pack of wolves announced that they did not like the way the rabbits were living.(The wolves were crazy about the way they themselves were living, because it was the only way to live.)One night several wolves were killed in an earthquake and this was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that rabbits pound on the ground with their hind legs and cause another night one of the wolves was killed by a bolt of lightning and this was also blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that lettuceeaters cause wolves threatened to civilize the rabbits if they didn’t behave, and the rabbits decided to run away to a desert the other animals, who lived at a great distance, shamed them, saying, “You must stay where you are and be is no world for the wolves attack you, we will e to your aid, in all probability.”So the rabbits continued to live near the wolves and one day there was a terrible flood which drowned a great many was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that carrotnibblers with long ears cause wolves descended on the rabbits, for their own good, and imprisoned them in a dark cave, for their own nothing was heard about the rabbits for some weeks, the other animals demanded to know what had happened to wolves replied that the rabbits had been eaten and since they had bee