• Basically,
science is about exploring and understanding the natural world through
observation and experimentation. Diverse and infinite realities exist, both
within and outside the reach of normal senses; and, it is through science that
humans can learn about them to enhance their well-being.
• Science is not a
fixed set of facts. It is an ever-changing flux; always open to new theories,
explanations, and discoveries, which from time to time get changed, corrected,
or disproven with up-to-date and more reliable theories replacing the old.
• Just because science can explain many various
unknown issues does not mean that it can explain everything.
• Right and wrong do not come from physics, chemistry,
or biology. Science does not instruct us how to treat one’s neighbor as
oneself, how to clothe the naked and feed the hungry, or why it is wrong to
murder, steal, bear false witness, or hurt others? Science is totally silent
about all these topics.
“I
am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is
very deficient. It gives us a lot of factual information, puts all our
experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about
all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It
cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and
physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and
eternity.” - Nobel Laureate, quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger.