QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL READING
1. How do modern scientists treat the question of certainty?
2. Why would people expect scientists to address social problems?
3. Why is it important to know that the atoms of the brain replace themselves?
4. What is the difference betweenfre use of an idea and the idea itself (part 25)?
5. What is the point of Feynman's experience in the Buddhist temple?
6. What does Feynman mean by "Education, for Good and Evil"?
7. What is the responsibility of scientists?
SUGGESTIONS FOR CRITICAL WRITING
1. What seems to be the popular view of the obligations of scientists to help solve social problems? Are the issues primarily associated with the problems that are created by scientific discoveries, such as television, computers, smart-phones, wireless surveillance, advanced weaponry, and interplanetary exploradon? If not, then what does society mean when it asks scientists to be socially responsible?
2. Do some research, particularly in recent newspaper and magazine articles, on the question of how contemporary society regards the achievements of science. Is there a wave of antiscientific attitudes on the part of the general public today? Are contemporary American politicians generally pro-science or antiscience What would move them to one position or the other? What is your position regarding the value of science in your world? Are you pro-science or antiscience?
3. Feynman's writing in paragraphs 13-18 is unusual in that it includes many fragments instead of sentences, and it seems to be very indirect in convey¬ing something that he feels is important. Write a brief essay explaining what Feynman is doing in these paragraphs and what the implications for our scien-tific understanding of the world are in light of what he is saying. How do vow connect these paragraphs.