Title: How is science able to benefit society? - Quora
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How is science able to benefit society?
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Content: Why is science important to society? We choose for it to be. Humans have been meeting their fundamental and more complex or abstract needs quite adequately since prehistory. Science is about cultural aesthetics, not human efficacy. It is a tool, and a way of perceiving the natural world. It has limited uses and limited benefits, but so do electric guitars and assigning a numerical value to the speed of light. Our society and its philosophies are interdependent, and science, being a philosophy worked into the whole messy mix, impacts all aspects of our culture, whether directly or indirectly. Science is not a savior, or a way to tru
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We choose for it to be. Humans have been meeting their fundamental and more complex or abstract needs quite adequately since prehistory. Science is about cultural aesthetics, not human efficacy.