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fundamental forces in nature.
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DXERCISES
Note for the student
The exercises given here are meant to enhance your awareness about the issues surrounding
science, technology and society and to encourage you to think and formulate your views
about them. The questions may not have clear-cut 'objective answers.
Note for the teacher
The exercises given here are not for the purpose of a formal examination.
1.1 Some of the most profound statements on the nature of science have come from
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists of all time. What do you think did
Einstein mean when he said: "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is
that it is comprehensible"?
1.2 "Every great physical theory starts as a heresy and ends as a dogma". Give some
examples from the history of science of the validity of this incisive remark.
1.3 “Politics is the art of the possible". Similarly. "Science is the art of the soluble".
Explain this beautiful aphorism on the nature and practice of science.
1.4 Though Indla now has a large base in science and technology, which is fast expanding,
it is still a long way from realising its potential of becoming a world leader in science.
Name some important factors, which in your view have hindered the advancement of
science in India.
15 No physicist has ever seen" an electron. Yet, all physicists believe in the existence of
electrons. An Intelligent but superstitious man advances this analogy to argue that
'ghosts' eodst even though no one has 'seen' one. How will you refute his argument?
1.6 The shells of crabs found around a particular coastal location in Japan seem mostly
te resemble the legendary face of a Samural. Given below are two explanations of this
eynlanation ?​

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