Multiple choice

The first lecture, the one that was supposed to explain what: scientific thinking is about, Feynman called The Uncertainty of Science. The uncertainty he had in mind was not that of Heisenberg, but rather that of Kari Popper: that scientists should be skeptical of their own theories, or in other words, have an open mind. As with most scientists who profess to follow Popper, he consistently refutes himself throughout his lectures. To Feynman, science has three parts: the facts or body of knowledge, the method or process that we use to establish those facts, and the applications of science, that is to say, technology: To him its an article of faith that technology follows science. He would regard technology arising on its own as something akin to the Virgin Birth.
The last sentence of the paragraph has been deleted. Which of the following completes the paragraph, most suitably?

  1. But scientific precepts are a priori before technology can set store for us.

  2. When the irrefutable scientific facts take shape, the applications in the form of technology are bound to follow.

  3. But his real point is that technology is only incidental to the importance of science.

  4. The body, the method, and the application, therefore, form the triumvirate of science.
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Explanation

Technology being “something akin to the Virgin Birth” helps eliminate (1) and (2). (4) and (5) are eliminated as they are unrelated to the passage and ideas.

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