07 August 2019
Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad delivers his lecture on How Science and Technology will Contribute to World Peace at the Japan Future Leaders School in Fukuoka August 7, 2019. — Bernama pic FUKUOKA , Aug 7 — Science and technology can be leveraged for good or bad to humanity and the choice lies with people, said Malaysia’s Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
He said the problem related to science and technology was not about the materials but the human who handles them. He likened the scenario to a knife where the tool could be used to carve beautiful things and on the other hand could be used wrongly to kill people.“It is not the science and technology which is bad but the people’s decision when they discover something to kill people,” he said when addressing participants of a summer school, Japan Future Leaders School, here today on ‘How Science and Technology will Contribute to World Peace’.