Science?

"Is science of any value?
I think the power to do something of value."
The Meaning of it All, Richard Feynman.

Feynman goes on to say  "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.". This was brought to my attention a while back by a fantastic youtube video made by Vsauce, but it made we start wondering. Is science really of any value?

And as Feynman stated, i do think that the ability to do something is of power. We have done some really bad things, just look at the dark ages. This is a time period of one thousand years in which we did nothing, things literally just got worse and there was no progression. There are the crusades, pointless slaughter of thousands.
How many people died for the industrial and scientific revolution?

An estimated 500,000 people were killed in the nazi experiments, one thing that they discovered was how to treat hypothermia. Before this we had a very primitive idea as to how to treat this condition. It is because of them that we are able to save hundreds if not thousands of people a year.

People complain about genetic engineering and yes it can in some bad cases cause symptoms, here I wont be trying to disprove that, but less know about the green revolution. The green revolution is a grand example of this, it has allowed more people to be able to eat food, allowing the population of the world to rise. The production of things like IR8 we have been able to make places that normally wouldn't be able to grow large amounts of food to at least feed their population.

The point of all of this i guess is that science is not a perfect immediate answer, is a slow moving answer that after trying things all different ways progresses into a more perfect tomorrow.
I hate it when i hear people talk about how they wish people would go back to how we originally were, how that would be so much nicer and better for everyone. I wan to point out that for that to happen you would have to kill about 6,500,000,000 people, and every single one (almost) of them will fight for it with everything they have. So yeah that wouldn't be that great, plus you would lose so much.
So yeah.

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Socrates.