Argumentative Essay On Science And Democracy

Vannevar Bush stated that scientific research is absolutely essential to national security, that war requires the most advanced scientific techniques. Bush pushed for colleges, universities, and research institutes to conserve the knowledge from the past and to teach that knowledge to students of the future. These institutes should be strengthened by use of public funds in order to better aid in the development of new scientific knowledge. He realized that the potential of underprivileged men and women who had taken interest in science was cut short by inability to pay for more schooling. In response, Bush pushed for undergraduate and graduate fellowships for those in the science career fields. Under these programs, the students would have to enroll in the National Science Reserve and if needed, be called to duty in the event of war. Within this push for scientific education, Bush wanted to search for those men and women who had a talent for science, these included those who were called to duty. Bush stated that “Our ability to overcome possible future enemies depends upon scientific advances which will proceed more rapidly with the fusion of …show more content…
They both require the achievement of human aims. However, there is a problem of assumption to where we believe everyone has the same human aim but some see the correlation of science and democracy as a mirror coincidence. For today, all men want the same thing and achieve them through the same path of international cooperation and increased productivity, industrialization, democracy, and education. Bush fits into this category because he claimed that “Research is the exploration of the unknown and is necessarily speculative. Only through such responsibilities can we maintain the proper relationships between science and other aspects of a democratic system” (Bush 255-256). He felt that without scientific research, we as a democracy would