Man, the highest and noblest product of Nature., has been feeling for his mother in his infancy. He has been worshipping her in his prime. But when himself he has growth of age he has fallen in romance with her. It is in short the history of the advancement of human knowledge which we call science. Science is systematic study of the law of nature, it inquires into the causes and effects of any phenomenon, action and reactions of elements and process of growth of life.
The history of mankind bears the testimony that during early days man feared nature excessively and in course of time he began to worship it in order to seek close harmony with her. In this manner he has been behaving towards nature. It has been going on till the era of dawn of reason. When man began to think about nature he watched its course in a bid to understand its laws and operative conditions related to different phenomena of the nature, their interconnections and effects on human life.
For quite a longer period man has been watching nature helplessly unable to understand its phenomena. But in due course, he was able to learn a little from nature. Nature, as such, is teacher of man, imparting knowledge of her own laws of operation. Since, there were very few men in the world in early days who were able to devote themselves to learning from nature the process had been going on as an exclusive practice of these particular individuals.
As a result whatever knowledge they acquired had remained their exclusive privilege and secret. After a certain period these 'senior scholars of nature' raised juniors to impart the knowledge they had thus acquired from the nature in the light of their experience and observances. At this stage, the laws of nature discovered by man, received a treatment of compilation and formulation in a bid to scrutinize it on the basis of observance and experiences in the respective spheres. This era of the history of mankind was the 'era of the beginning of intelligibility of natural laws' and henceforth 'Science' came into being as a systematic study of the same. When the science in course of time, grew up fairly well, the laws of nature had become more intelligible.
The romance of science with nature subjectively and romance of man with nature objectively are the different stages of maturity of the two which are inseparable with one another under any circumstances. It was maturity of the knowledge that man had acquired in course of time and through which he knew the secrets of nature and was attracted towards it. Nature had become a very charming lady for him continuously dropping clues to be pursued.
The science is a process server and a go between which acts at instance of man which unveils and delivers the store of knowledge granted by the Gracefull lady. For the spectators of the science ordinarily, it is very difficult to find out and recognize the face of the actual party involved in romance with nature whether it is man or science. As such, the things can be taken either way. From the standpoint of performance, it is science that is on the stage and from the standpoint of direction it is man who is directing the particular scene and the entire play. We call him scientist in the proper terminology.
With this background that we have attempted to trace and put up at length here we look around ourselves and the present day world in context of advancement of science and our achievements of the modern world at the strength of our 'mastery of laws of nature' and its application to the benefit of mankind.
The history of mankind bears the testimony that during early days man feared nature excessively and in course of time he began to worship it in order to seek close harmony with her. In this manner he has been behaving towards nature. It has been going on till the era of dawn of reason. When man began to think about nature he watched its course in a bid to understand its laws and operative conditions related to different phenomena of the nature, their interconnections and effects on human life.
For quite a longer period man has been watching nature helplessly unable to understand its phenomena. But in due course, he was able to learn a little from nature. Nature, as such, is teacher of man, imparting knowledge of her own laws of operation. Since, there were very few men in the world in early days who were able to devote themselves to learning from nature the process had been going on as an exclusive practice of these particular individuals.
As a result whatever knowledge they acquired had remained their exclusive privilege and secret. After a certain period these 'senior scholars of nature' raised juniors to impart the knowledge they had thus acquired from the nature in the light of their experience and observances. At this stage, the laws of nature discovered by man, received a treatment of compilation and formulation in a bid to scrutinize it on the basis of observance and experiences in the respective spheres. This era of the history of mankind was the 'era of the beginning of intelligibility of natural laws' and henceforth 'Science' came into being as a systematic study of the same. When the science in course of time, grew up fairly well, the laws of nature had become more intelligible.
The romance of science with nature subjectively and romance of man with nature objectively are the different stages of maturity of the two which are inseparable with one another under any circumstances. It was maturity of the knowledge that man had acquired in course of time and through which he knew the secrets of nature and was attracted towards it. Nature had become a very charming lady for him continuously dropping clues to be pursued.
The science is a process server and a go between which acts at instance of man which unveils and delivers the store of knowledge granted by the Gracefull lady. For the spectators of the science ordinarily, it is very difficult to find out and recognize the face of the actual party involved in romance with nature whether it is man or science. As such, the things can be taken either way. From the standpoint of performance, it is science that is on the stage and from the standpoint of direction it is man who is directing the particular scene and the entire play. We call him scientist in the proper terminology.
With this background that we have attempted to trace and put up at length here we look around ourselves and the present day world in context of advancement of science and our achievements of the modern world at the strength of our 'mastery of laws of nature' and its application to the benefit of mankind.
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