Science and Culture

In this age rockets and space exploration science has made a remarkable contribution to the development of culture in every society and civilization. As a handmaid of education, science is automatically connected with culture. Although men of letters, who are generally taken to be the guardians of culture, tend to look with certain apprehension at the impact of science on cultural values, modern thinking on this subject differs with this outlook and regards their fears as unfounded.Science and letters are no moving closer gradually and there is no wedge between these once conflicting disciplines. Science does not spelt the ruin of culture; it promotes it and hardness it to, modern requirements.

Culture is a way of life common to a particular people and it is hased on a social tradition. Which is embodied in its institutions and its literature. There is also another concept of culture which is stated to be the harmonious development of human nature by the cultivation of mind. It is a quest for vision and understanding.

Culture and Science Part 2

Science and technology, moreover, stand for rationalization of man' activities. Progress in science and technology is based on essential unalterable facts. Sentiment alone has no place in scientific thinking. Even intuition, which plays a great role in the formation of  scientific theory, is not easily accepted unless it can be proved and justified in some way or the other. Scientific work demands a certain rigour in thinking, a respect for objectivity in the valuation of facts. It trains the mind to make calm, dispassionate and objective assessment of events, and situations.

Thus the scientific age has ushered in a number of a new values and invincible optimism in attacking human problem, a rationalization of effort so as to obtain maximum efficiency, a sens of sharing and cooperation in the common task, facing mankind, relieving human want and suffering and feeling of the brotherhood of man. these are all values that have become a part of the tradition of an industrialized society  and, therefore, be called elements of a true culture which is fast emerging today.