Social Responsibilities of a Scientist- Bertrand Russell , Short summary and analysis

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Social Responsibilities of a Scientist- Bertrand Russell


* Bertrand Russell is a famous English prose writer He has expressed his views on science and its influence on human life.

 * According to him  science is a good servant but a bad master for man. The social responsibility of scientists requires that they should also consider societal impacts of their work, particularly as these discoveries impacts the safety, health or welfare of the society.

 * The social responsibility of scientists requires that they should also consider societal impacts of their work, particularly as these discoveries impacts the safety, health or welfare of the society.


According to Bertrand Russell, the role of scientist in the society is as follows :


* A scientist is person with some special skills but he is also a citizen and he has duties too for the society.


*A scientist should speak out the issues of public in his speech, as his speech will have more values and can be heard more widely than a normal person’s speech.


* Scientist may provide more discoveries related to war and weapons but there is lot more than war and weapon.


* Bertrand Russell also mentioned that the scientists should work for the development of knowledge and should share them with the public, it is the duty of the scientists to explain their discoveries to the general public as people may not be aware of the good or the bad effects of the discovery.


* Bertrand Russell says that the social responsibility of a scientist is to share all his scientific experiences, discoveries with the ordinary people so that people become rational, knowledgeable, intelligent and smart for taking decisions.


* Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are also many negative aspects of scientific innovation.


* Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that science offers the world greater well-being than it has ever known, on the condition that prosperity is dispersed; power is diffused by means of a single, world government; birth rates do not become too high; and war is abolished. Russell acknowledges that is a tall order, but remains essentially optimistic. 


* He imagines mankind in a 'race between human skill as to means and human folly as to ends', but believes human society will ultimately choose the path of reason. 

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