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Sci Eng Ethics. 2019 Dec;25(6):1699-1704. doi: 10.1007/s11948-019-00159-3. Epub 2019 Dec 12.
Humans are powerful and clever, and also more ignorant than they know. As a result, they too often fail to acknowledge or even recognize their limitations, and are more arrogant than humble regarding their capabilities. Education that explicitly recognizes and addresses the context of science and technology, their inherent values and ethical implications and concerns, and their problematic as well as beneficial impacts can potentially rescue the human species from itself.
人类强大而聪明，但也比自己想象的更加无知。因此，他们往往无法承认甚至认识到自己的局限性，在自身能力方面表现得过于傲慢而非谦逊。明确承认并处理科学技术的背景、其内在价值观以及伦理影响和关切，以及其有利和不利影响的教育，有可能将人类从自我毁灭中拯救出来。
