Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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it would be difficult today to find any scientist who imagines himself, because of his ability to discern previous errors, in a position to enunciate final truths. On the contrary, modern theorists are aware, as Newton was, that they stand on the shoulders of giants and that their particular perspective may appear distorted to posterity as that of their predecessors seemed to them. 31
The father of quantum theory, Max Planck states that, on solving one problem, another one, more complex and difficult than the earlier, looms large in front of us like a higher peak coming into view after climbing one during a tough mountaineering expedition ... with the mysterious element of truth remaining elusive as ever, thwarting all our efforts to master it.A leading scientist like Eddington also opines that the physical world would lose its significance if divorced from the concept of universal intelligence.
The leading luminary of the modern science, Dr. Einstein states,
The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest mainspring of scientific research... The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. 32
Western thinkers are already visualising the possibility in near future when science itself will reiterate the truths enunciated by ancient philosophers. Paying his homage to the spiritually enlightened sages of ancient India, an eminent
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