According to the new school of scientists, technology is an overlooked force in expanding the horizons of scientific knowledge. (1) Science moves forward, they say, not so much through the insights of great men of genius as because of more ordinary things like improved techniques and tools. (2) "In short", a leader of the new school contends, "the scientific revolution, as we call it, was largely the improvement and invention and use of a series of instruments that expanded the reach of science in innumerable directions." (3) Over the years, tools and technology themselves as a source of fundamental innovation have largely been ignored by historians and philosophers of science. The modern school that hails technology argues that such masters as Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and inventors such as Edison attached great importance to, and derived great benefit from, craft information and technological devices of different kinds that were usable in scientific experiments. The centerpiece of the argument of a technology-yes, genius-no advocate was an analysis of Galileo's role at the start of the scientific revolution. The wisdom of the day was derived from Ptolemy, an astronomer of the second century, whose elaborate system of the sky put Earth at the center of all heavenly motions. (4) Galileo's greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the Earth. But the real hero of the story, according to the new school of scientists, was the long evolution in the improvement of machinery for making eyeglasses.

Federal policy is necessarily involved in the technology vs. genius dispute. (5) Whether the Government should increase the financing of pure science at the expense of technology or vice versa often depends on the issue of which is seen as the driving force.

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1．他們說，科學的發展與其說源于天才偉人的真知灼見，不如說源于改進了技術和工具等更為普通的東西。
2．新學派的一位領袖人物堅持說：“簡言之，我們所謂的科學革命，主要是指一系列器具的改進、發明和使用，這些改進、發明和使用使科學發展的范圍無所不及。”
3．工具和技術本身作為根本性創新的源泉多年來在很大程度上被科學史學家和科學思想家們忽視了。
4．伽利略的最光輝的'業績在于他在1609年第一個把新發明的望遠鏡對準太空，以證實行星是圍繞太陽旋轉，而不是圍繞地球（旋轉）。
5．政府究竟是以減少對技術的經費投入來增加對純理論科學的經費投入，還是相反，這往往取決于把哪一方面看作是驅動力量。