Limitations of Science
科學的局限性：
Often one hears so much about science and what it can do, and so little about what it cannot do. Scientific knowledge is limited to the data received through the sense organs. It does not recognize reality which transcends sense-data. Scientific truth is built upon logical observations of sense-data which are continually changing. Scientific truth is, therefore, relative truth not intended to stand the test of time. And a scientist, being aware of this fact, is always willing to discard a theory if it can be replaced by a better one.
Science attempts to understand the outer world and has barely scratched the surface of man”s inner world. Even the science of psychology has not really fathomed the underlying cause of man”s mental unrest. When a man is frustrated and disgusted with life, and his inner world is filled with disturbances and unrest, science today is very much unequipped to help him.. The social sciences which cater for man”s environment may bring him a certain degree of happiness. But unlike an animal man requires more than mere physical comfort and needs help to cope with his frustrations and miseries arising from his daily experiences.
Today so many people are plagued with fear, restlessness, and insecurity. Yet science fails to succor them. Science is unable to teach the common man to control his mind when he is driven by the animal nature that burns within him.
Can science make man better
If it can, why do violent acts and immoral practices abound in countries which are so advanced in science
Isn”t it fair to say that despite all the scientific progress achieved and the advantages conferred on man, science leaves the inner man basically unchanged: it has only heightened man”s feelings of dependence and insufficiency
In addition to its failure to bring security to mankind, science has also made everyone feel even more insecure by threatening the world with the possibility of wholesale destruction.
Science is unable to provide a meaningful purpose of life. It cannot provide man clear reasons for living. In fact, science is thoroughly secular in nature and unconcerned with man”s spiritual goal. The materialism inherent in scientific thought denies the psyche goals higher than material satisfaction. By its selective theorizing and relative truths, science disregards some of the most essential issues and leaves many questions unanswered. For instance, when asked why great inequalities exist among men, no scientific explanation can be given to such questions which are beyond its narrow confines.
科學常被人們所誇大。科學受限製于通過感官得來的知識，科學無法理解超越感官知識的存在。科學是建立于來自感官觀察的知識和邏輯理論。因此，科學是相對性的真理，無法在時間永久不變。科學所求證出來的「真理」經常被新的理論所推翻。
科學包含了心智以外的所有學問。即使是心理學家也承認無法真正了解人類的心識。當一個人內心受到外來的幹擾而無法平靜時，科學家也束手無策。社會學家也只能改善某些社會環境，爲人類帶來的幸福是有限的。與動物不同的是，人類不僅滿足于物質需求和舒適的生活，同時還需要有人爲他們解決日常生活中所面對的種種煩惱。
今天很多人受恐懼、憂慮和不安所困擾，這是科學無法平息的。當人類內心充滿獸性時，科學沒有能力教導它們如何調伏和控製自己的心識。
科學能改善人類嗎？如果可以的話，那麼爲何在科學發達的國度裏，還有那麼多的動亂和不道德的行爲發生。雖然科學獲得了很大的成就，同時也利益了人類。可是科學基本無法改變人類的心識，反而加強了人類的依賴性和不滿足。
科學的發展不但不能給人類帶來安全感，反而使世界充滿了危機，導致了人類對科學的毀滅性充滿了恐懼感。科學無法給人類帶來有意義的生活，也無法讓人類看清楚生活的真正目的。科學不關心人類心靈的開展。科學只注重理性的物質，忽略了感性的心靈，因此，很多問題都無法解決。科學的範圍太狹隘了，無法解決人類各種不平等的問題。