Jain Philosophy and Modern Science

Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE
more thoroughly how great is the range of our ignorance "1
"Science should leave off making pronouncements. the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself "2
"The oustanding achievements of twentieth century physics is not the Theory of Relativity with its welding together of space and time, or the Theory of Quanta with its present apparent negation of the laws of causation, or the dissection of the atom with the resultant discovery that things are not what they seem; it is the general recognition that we are not yet in contact with ultimate reality."g
In this way we naturally arrive at the conclusion that science attempted to flow in an independent channel even at the cost of becoming rebellious against philosophic tenets The pity is that the path adopted by science was not the right one, as it was considered to be The fact, however, remains that between science and philosophy there are more things in common and there is lesser of clash Just as there is a long tradition of knowledge behind philosophy similarly there is a zeal for truth in science Scientists never sat satisfied on what they deemed to be false Whereas philosophy created different schools of thoughts like the Vedic Philosophy, Bud
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Leopold Infeld Si James Jeans in "The Mysterious Universe", P 138 Ibid, p 111