科学的历史经验与未来

该文对科学的历史经验作了简要回顾，从科学的源泉，动力，条件，科学的继承，发展，创新，以及科学对生产力和社会进步的推动等方面进行了论述，并展望了科学的未来，阐述了未来科学的结构，科学教育，科学社会功能，科学建制与文化。

HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE AND FUTURE OF SCIENCE

Modern science has undergone the course of its development for more than 300 years. Especially in the 20th century science and technology have been making progress at a tremendous pace. They have profoundly changed and will continue to change the physionomy of the world. Having gone through the age of agricultural economy and industrial economy , mankind has now entered an era of information , and science has become the cornerstone for the modern civilization of mankind , as well as the basis and the precursor for technological revolution and industrial revolution. Science and technology have been turned into decisive factors in promot- ing sustained economic and social progress. Innovation , spread and application of knowledge have become the most important , inexhaustible reserve and motive power for future economic and social development , and mankind will enter an age of knowledgeable economy. To sum up the historical experience of scientific development and look forward to the fu- ture of science will help us to acquire a better understanding about the law of development of science and grasp the development trend of transcentury science and technology , thus better developing science and technology , bringing benefit to the state and its people. and building a civilization of a still higher level for mankind.