THE SCIENTIFIC TEMPER

Indispensible for Success

THE Discovery of India,  a book well known to  millions  of  readers,  was  written by India’s former Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru, while  he was imprisoned at Ahmednagar Fort in Maharashtra. In this book, Jawahar Lal Nehru emphasized the  virtue of the scientific temper in these memorable lines:  “The scientific approach and temper are, or should be, a way of life, a process of thinking, a method of thinking, a method of acting and associating with our fellow men.”

What is the scientific temper? The scientific temper is  a  frame  of  mind based on reality, which  demands the  application of  logic in  all  situations. This quality is of  prime  importance. It is indispensible for every individual and every group of people if  they are to be successful  in  life.

Scientific temper makes you a positive thinker and dictates a realistic approach. It makes you a giving member of society.

Scientific temper makes you a positive thinker  and  dictates a realistic approach.  It makes you a giving member of society. It ensures that  your  mind  develops along  the  right  lines  and makes you a creative thinker. One who possesses a scientific temper, being an integrated personality, never suffers  from a superiority complex or the  arrogance  which  would lead  to the  kind of bias  and  hatred that  stems  from  unhealthy thought.

Scientific temperament is basic to all kinds of human activities, both individual and social. It makes  one patient, tolerant  and forgiving.  Only those who  are  imbued  with such  a  spirit  can  be good members of their societies. While scientific temper gives one everything, it deprives one of nothing. Without it, a man is no better than an animal,  while  once  possessed  of  it, he emerges as a true human being.