Culture, conflict and development. On the nature of linkages between science, technology, philosophy and culture. Science consists of a body of precise statements which can be tested or proved. It may be descriptive, observational, experimental, or classificatory. Statements of exact sciences are measurable in terms of numbers.
Technology is intimately related to science.
While science is concerned with the human understanding of the objective world, its inherent properties and their interactions, technology and engineering deal with the application of objective knowledge for achieving desired objectives and the tools and techniques for achieving the said objectives. Guided by science, technology and engineering check and contribute to scientific progress and human development. All theoretical and practical enterprises are somehow rooted in the cultural life of humans. The relation and interaction between the natural and the cultural are not only studied but have to be regulated by our needs. In the essays of this book an attempt has been made to bring out not only the issues of complementarity and conflict between the realms of nature and culture but also within the same.