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.
The growing relation between science and culture has brought forth what may be termed as scientific culture. Between science and culture, there are common attitudes, common standards and patterns of behaviour, common approaches and assumptions.
The irony of the present situation is that the protagonists of the two cultures the literary and the scientific have ceased to speak to each other in any effective way. Literary men like to present that the traditional culture is the whole culture, as though the exploration of the natural border and science were of not interest either in their own values, or in consequence. Scientists in the other hand think as if the edifice of the physical world in its intellectual depth, complexity and articulation, is the most beautiful and wonderful collective work of the mind of the man. Many of them have no use for the whole of literature of traditional culture. It seems to them totally irrelevant to the real interests of man.
Modern science has in spite of all these obstacles and handicaps, contributed to the development of modern culture in its own way. All modern scientific innovations like the loudspeaker, the radio, the television and the rest have come handy to the literature the artists, the writer, the actor and other men of culture who appear before the common man and bring him in the line of great tradition of culture and art.
Science has opened the heaven;s gates of art to the common man. One of the important wings of the United Nations-the UNESCO (United nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation)-has realized the significant tole that science plays in the field of education and culture. Gone are the days when culture and refinement where the monopoly of the few, privileged with money and power, luxury and leisure.
Culture is now the property of the masses all over the world and this boon has become possible only with the aid of science which has diversified and decentralized culture and made it the common media of international understanding.
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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.
The growing relation between science and culture has brought forth what may be termed as scientific culture. Between science and culture, there are common attitudes, common standards and patterns of behaviour, common approaches and assumptions.
The irony of the present situation is that the protagonists of the two cultures the literary and the scientific have ceased to speak to each other in any effective way. Literary men like to present that the traditional culture is the whole culture, as though the exploration of the natural border and science were of not interest either in their own values, or in consequence. Scientists in the other hand think as if the edifice of the physical world in its intellectual depth, complexity and articulation, is the most beautiful and wonderful collective work of the mind of the man. Many of them have no use for the whole of literature of traditional culture. It seems to them totally irrelevant to the real interests of man.
Modern science has in spite of all these obstacles and handicaps, contributed to the development of modern culture in its own way. All modern scientific innovations like the loudspeaker, the radio, the television and the rest have come handy to the literature the artists, the writer, the actor and other men of culture who appear before the common man and bring him in the line of great tradition of culture and art.
Science has opened the heaven;s gates of art to the common man. One of the important wings of the United Nations-the UNESCO (United nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation)-has realized the significant tole that science plays in the field of education and culture. Gone are the days when culture and refinement where the monopoly of the few, privileged with money and power, luxury and leisure.
Culture is now the property of the masses all over the world and this boon has become possible only with the aid of science which has diversified and decentralized culture and made it the common media of international understanding.
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