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Science in the modern sense is hardly three centuries old. Three

hundred years is a very short period in the life of humanity but ev en inns short time the applications of science, its discoveries and inventions

have become the leading factors inhuman life. Every moment of man's

life, figuratively speaking, is controlled by  science.

 Agriculture, industry medicine, surgery, the method of warfare, means

of communication transport and human comforts has been

revolutionized by science. The secrets of nature have been wrested by 

the scientists and the most powerful forces of nature have been

harnessed for the benefit of mankind. If the ancients could rise from

their graves and see the marvels of our time the; would be hugely 

 bewildered.

They would cut a sorry figure in the minds of the highly civilized,

mechanized, refined and sophisticated life of today.

 We have c ome to take the inventions of science for granted. But if we

could travel back, say with the time machine of H.G. Wells, we should

find life in the past a dull and drab affair. The primitive man had to best

heat and cold resignedly. He had to fetch water from a distant spring

fountain. He had to work hard in the fields from morning till evening

Means of communication were few and slow.

Transport was difficult. 1 take an ex ample from the f ield of romance,

the lover had no other mean of talking to his beloved in far-off lands

except through pigeons are parrots. Nala sent his message through

pigeons to his beloved Damayanti. When the clouds arose on the

 bosom of the sky and the memory of pa happy days was excited, Yaksha had no help but to cry for the clouds carry his message to his

sweetheart.

"O messenger of mine; whence will thou get mine own tongue and mine

own words to describe what fee.

 All this is changed now. Life has become safer, swifter, mo

comfortable, more pleasurable. In the sweltering heat of summer, the

rooms are kept co ol by means of electric fan, which supplies wafts of a

The rooms in modern buildings are air-conditioned. A person sitting

these rooms forgets the scorching heat outside. During winter these

rooms are kept warm by the use of heaters.

 ATUL JOSHI

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In the past, people returned from long journeys dead-tired and

footsore, their feet blistered and their body totally exhausted. Now 

ourneys are c omfortable. There are all the amenities of modern life in

ships, aeroplanes and railways.

The v alue of science in everyday life c an be judged best from the

application of electricity to the needs of a person in his daily life. T o I

house wife, electricity is more than a maid servant. T he electric press

pressing clothes, the heater for warming water and preparing tea,

refrigerator for keeping water, fruit, and vegetables cool, and various

other electric devices and gadgets are immensely useful to her.

Electric also performs major tasks for us. Electric tools have made it

possible bore into the heart of the mountains, to divert the course of 

the given store water behind dams, to dig canals and construct barrages

construct bridges and floating docks.

In the field of medicine, science claims splendid triumphs. Penicillin

and streptomycin are in the supreme wonders of medical science. Most

difficult surgical operations are performed with the greatest possible

ease. Treatment by X-ray or radium is without parallel. Countless new 

drugs have been discovered to relieve human suffering.

Even so, it has to be admitted that science can give us comfort but it

cannot give happiness. Our material achievements, our control of 

physical forces, our aeroplanes and automobiles, have not added to the

peace of mind or brought laughter back to life, or answered any 

questions about here and hereafter. Machines have snatched away 

from us the calm of mind and peacefulness of our environment. We are

surrounded by a perpetual dim and dazzle noise and unrest.

The struggle for ex istence hangs heavy on us and we are cracking

under its burden. We have begun worshipping material success, are

greedy for tangible gains and are governed by worldly standards. We

have been caught in the entangling apparatus of money and machinery;

have become violently, restless, thoughtless, undisciplined and

unscrupulous.

 We are full of hurry and worry and in the midst of ever- increasing

social and political excitements, there is no time for us to stand and

stare, as the poet says, or to tarry a moment to enjoy the pious

pleasures of meditation and quietude.

The pursuit of science by looking at facts alone and ignoring the

ultimate purposes has resulted in a lopsided growth. It has made the

 world jump forward with a leap, built up a glittering civilization,

opened up innumerable avenues for the growth of knowledge, and

added to the power of man to such an extent that for the first time it

has become possible to conceive that man could triumph over and

shape his physical environment. Man has become almost a geological

force changing the face of the planet earth chemically, physically and

in many other ways.

 Yet when this sorry scheme of things entirely seems to be in his grasp

to mould it nearer to his heart's desire, some vital element is found

missing. There is no knowledge of ultimate purposes and not even an

understanding of the immediate purpose; for science has told us

nothing about any purpose in life.

It is wrong to suppose, as science does, that the world is a mere

mechanical movement and man a purposeless force. Life is not the

product of mechanical laws like a river c arried by the force o f 

gravitation. The current of life derives man onward and upward on the

path of evolution and the driving power lies not outside him but within

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But the scientist does not comprehend the real nature of his driving

power. His electrons and protons do not resolve the mystery of the

soul. Besides, God and soul cannot be treated as mathematical

equations.

Our deepest convictions for which we are sometimes ready to die are

not the results of cold rational calculations. The decisive experience of 

a personal life cannot be reduced to formula. Life is not a simple

geometrical pattern nor are men and women merely parallelograms.

It is this sense of the eternal, which must supplement and complete the

knowledge known as science.

Science deals with the domain of positive knowledge but the temper,

 which it should produce, go beyond that domain. The ultimate

purposes of man may be said to be to gain knowledge, to realize truth,

to appreciate goodness and beauty. Now the world of Truth, Beauty 

and Goodness is proclaimed by the scientist to be no more than a

product of accidental combination of atoms destined to end as it began

in a cloud of hydrogen gas.

For him life is not the designed plan of a divine artist, but an outcome

of the peculiar combination and collusion of whirling atoms. But if weapply a little of ref lection and try to break through the surface of 

things, we shall find that things do not move in a mechanical fashion.

 All the arguments of the laboratory , the formulae of the physicists, the

smart phrases of the intellectual atheists are shamed into nothingness

 when we look at the majestic phenomena of nature, the stars, moon,

sun, flowers, and fruits, hills and dales.

The scientific method of o bjective inquiry is not applicable to all these

and much that is vital in life seems to lay beyond its scope the

sensitiveness to art and poetry, the emotion that beauty produces, the

inner recognition of goodness.

God save the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can

prove by scientific methods. Science alone cannot explain the

mysteries of life and existence. It is with the temper and approach of 

science, allied to philosophy and with reverence for all that lies

 beyond, that we must face life.

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