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1) What discoveries in the history of mankind do you regard as breakthroughs?
2) What inventions in the history of mankind do you regard as most important?
3) Which of the centuries in your opinion saw the greatest inventions and discoveries?
4) What things can you describe as marvels of modern science? And why are they such?
5) Can you remember any outstanding names of well-known scientists, explorers, inventors and discoverers in Russia, Western Europe and the USA?
6) How do you understand the terms "high technology" and "new technology" ? Do they describe absolutely the same things?
7) What makes the work of a scientist dull on the one hand and exciting on the other
8) What in your opinion does a scientist do? Give an example.
9) What in your like to become a scientist? if you would, what field of research would you choose?
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1. First of all I think about such basical things as fire, wheels, paper, money - what would our life be without this things? Thay are really breakthroughs, because have changed the life of the mankind.2. I regard electricity, telegraph, antibiotics, steam-engine, typography and plastics as probably the most important. We can consider a lot of revolutionary technologies to be the consequences of these inventions.
3. I admire scientific discoveries of the ancient greeks, they managed to understand that the universe consists of particles, isn't it amazing?
4. Bioengineering, discoveries in medicine, human-like robots, Curiosity rover. All these marvels of the modern science are discovering and improving the life of a man like biological being and the life of a man as a researcher.
5. Yes, of course. Charles Darwin, an outstanding British scientist, the father of evolution theory; Dmitry Mendeleev, Russian god of chemistry, who has formulated the periodic law; Nikola Tesla, great American inventor and theoretician of the alternating current.
6. I think that high technologies are already in use, and new technologies are in testing. High technologies exist as the mixture of many sciences united for the sake of technological breakthrough, and new technologies are supposed to be revolutionary or improved methods of receiving what is already received.
7. The work of a scientist is a routine with many experiments to be patiently carried out again and again, so it might seem dull. But of course it is so exiting to overcome nature or receive the result desired.
8. First of all, a scientist sees and understands the existing problem. Then he tries to solve it, or realize and formulate scientific laws, or explain the laws of nature and space. For example, Russian linguist Andrey Zaliznyak has carried out many archaeological expeditions to study the birch scrolls of Novgorod, and has made important linguistic discoveries.
9. I think, I would choose chemistry or biology, because they have very practical importance and are of current interest nowadays.