Religion and Science
6. The Man Science Failed To Discover
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power to predict future events, and often to
determine at will their occurrence; in learning the
secret of the constitution and properties of matter,
we have gained the mastery of almost everything
which exists on the surface of the earth excepting
ourselves. The science of living beings in general,
and of the human individual in particular, has not
made such spectacular progress. It still remains at
the descriptive stage, while the elucidation of the
real nature of living beings requires much more
than mere description.
The Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Alexis Carrel, who
achieved unique fame in biological research at the
Rockfeller Institute in New York, elaborates at some
length in his book,
Man, the Unknown,
on what is
meant by man:
Man is an indivisible whole of extreme
complexity. No simple representation of him
can be obtained. There is no method capable
of apprehending him simultaneously in his
entirety, his parts, and his relations with the
outer world. In order to analyze ourselves we
are obliged to seek the help of various
