Explain why it is important to know the History of Science.
One approach is that characterised by the famous statement of Henry Ford, "History is bunk". According to this approach, all the earlier knowledge that is useful is absorbed in the present state of knowledge. What has been left out are only the mistakes, about which we should not bother. But this approach does not answer the basic questions. For example, let us take the last question that we have posed in the previous section. To understand why science is being misused to produce more and more deadly weapons, it is not good enough to blame the scientists who are at present engaged in defence research. Instead, we have to look at history in order to see how knowledge, including scientific knowledge, has been used to further
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