科学技术是实现社会现代化的重要杠杆。蒸气机启动资本主义时代的历史事实表明，科学技术和现代化一开始就结下了不解之缘。回顾中国现代化的艰辛历程，中国人对现代化的源脱意识，最先表现于林则徐，魏源等人的“师夷之长技以制夷”的先进主张上，虽然这种对科学技术的认识较 Science and technology are important levers for social modernization. The historical fact that the steam engine started the capitalist era shows that indissoluble bonds between science and technology and modernization have been established. Looking back on the arduous course of China’s modernization, the Chinese people’s awareness of the source of modernization was first manifested in the advanced claims of Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan who made great efforts to control the barbarians. Although this understanding of science and technology is more