バートランド・ラッセル『科学は社会を震撼した』第7章
* 出典:バートランド・ラッセル(著),堀秀彦(訳)『科学は社会を震撼した』(角川書店,1956年1月。198pp.)* 原著:The Impact of Science on Society, 1952
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Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as to means and human folly as to ends. Given sufficient folly as to ends, every increase in the skill required to achieve them is to the bad. The human race has survived hitherto owing to ignorance and incompetence; but, given knowledge and competence combined with folly, there can be no certainty of survival. Knowledge is power, but it is power for evil just as much as for good. It follows that, unless men increase in wisdom as much as in knowledge, increase of knowledge will be increase of sorrow. |