________________
the military, wasting an enormous potential of human ingenuity and creativity by developing ever more sophisticated means of total destruction, the path of Buddha, the 'path with a heart', cannot be overemphasised. 46
The great scientist and father of quantum physics, Max Planck states, “I consider life as fundamental. I believe the matter to have originated from life." 47
The well-known Indian scientist, Dr. Raja Ramanna also thinks on similar lines :
" Even if science progresses with the help of its amazing powers, the fundamental questions will persist; and we (scientists) may never be able to survive without religion or philosophy, it may happen that they may assume different nomenclature by then. " 48
Plus points of science :
Having noted the limitations of science, it would not be proper to accuse that nothing good has ever come out of scientific discoveries. Modern inventions have at least made the constraints of time and space to nearly vanish. The world has grown smaller. Various parts of the world have come in closer contact with each other despite geographical distances. This is the handiwork of technology/engineering. Atomic science, on the other hand has revealed the fact that our experience of the universe is not objective but subjective i.e. observer-related. In other words, not the world existing outside but the one that our sense-organs tell us about and our mind interprets it as - that is our world. Every individual's world, therefore, is different. The significance of such inference in our quest for self-identity can have very important bearing.
88
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
