today
28th February is the national science
day, a day to mark C V RAMAN's birth anniversary. It goes without saying that
science has given us a lot of comfort in terms of technological inventions.
However, the very "idea of science" serves a lot of purposes when
there comes to invoke rationality, logical, analytical, systematic thinking. It
has helped simplify the world in terms of bringing homogeneity and
predictability to ensure order.
Even Political ideology recognized its importance n hence political science or in general social science. Nevertheless, it has never ignored the probabilistic notion as we can see from the dichotomy of "facts n values ". Such notion is not confined to humanities or social studies but also in pure science as well, as we can see the "Heisenberg's uncertainty principle" or "De Broglie's dual nature of light as wave n particle". So, such dualism is well accepted in every walk as Gandhiji said science without humanity is sin.
A similar analogy of human being where man is fact/science n woman is value/humane(humanity). Even when we hypothesize of a scientific principle we go for a lot of assumptions which is about reducing the value character to put a simple picture which in turn help govern many events satisficingly. A such simplistic approach quenches our thrusts.
Similarly, science n mysticism(unverified faiths or religions) are two sides of same coins. As we advance with our findings in verifiable terms , we create more space for science squeezing space of mysticism. It seems a natural order however the mysticism is infinite, so no end of faiths but need is to take faiths in right spirit to serve humanity even though some of its claims are yet to be verified.
Scientific temper is a right inculcation to make humanity more objective i.e. to uphold it at any cost even though faiths are to be compromised as today's faiths may be tomorrow's simple scientific principles or laws, nothing irrationally sacrosanct.
Even Political ideology recognized its importance n hence political science or in general social science. Nevertheless, it has never ignored the probabilistic notion as we can see from the dichotomy of "facts n values ". Such notion is not confined to humanities or social studies but also in pure science as well, as we can see the "Heisenberg's uncertainty principle" or "De Broglie's dual nature of light as wave n particle". So, such dualism is well accepted in every walk as Gandhiji said science without humanity is sin.
A similar analogy of human being where man is fact/science n woman is value/humane(humanity). Even when we hypothesize of a scientific principle we go for a lot of assumptions which is about reducing the value character to put a simple picture which in turn help govern many events satisficingly. A such simplistic approach quenches our thrusts.
Similarly, science n mysticism(unverified faiths or religions) are two sides of same coins. As we advance with our findings in verifiable terms , we create more space for science squeezing space of mysticism. It seems a natural order however the mysticism is infinite, so no end of faiths but need is to take faiths in right spirit to serve humanity even though some of its claims are yet to be verified.
Scientific temper is a right inculcation to make humanity more objective i.e. to uphold it at any cost even though faiths are to be compromised as today's faiths may be tomorrow's simple scientific principles or laws, nothing irrationally sacrosanct.
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