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spite of all this advancement, man has become more informed but less wise. His knowledge has not helped man in getting peace and happiness, in protecting mankind, in preserving enviroment and in devoloping a cosmic outlook. It has helped man in knowing the external world; it has utterly failed in helping man knowing himself”. (Maya in Physics, 1991 p. 440). T. S. Eliot in his “Choruse From The Rock'" expressed :
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness knowledge of speech, but not of silence. Knowledge of words and ignorant of the word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. All our knowledge brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to god.
Where is the life we have lost in living ? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge ? Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information ? The Cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries. Bring us farther from god and nearer to the Dust”.
Fritjof Capra in his Tao of Physics (1983) writes :"Most of todays physicists do not seem to realise the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories. Many of them actively support a society which is still based on the mechanistic fragmented world view, without seeng that science points beyond such a view, towards a oneness of the universe which includes not only our natural environment but also our fellow human beings" (P. P. 339-40). Dr. D. S. Kothari opines : "Science cannot contribute meaningfully to the great moral challenge facing mankind today, the greatesi in man's history. Unless it recognizes its obligation to the problem of ‘self' and not merely that of the atom'. (Atom and Self, 1988, p. 25). Martin Luther king remarks—"When scientific power outruns moral powers we end up with guided missiles and
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