Shahrezad, August 11, 1976, Tehran: What do you think about the human being’s science?
Prabhupada: Yes, science is correct, as far as it is practical. Science means practical. And, so far I know, those who are students of science, they have to appear for practical examination, is it not? Simply theoretical knowledge is not science.
So much percentage of oxygen, so much percentage of hydrogen, mix together, becomes water. That you have to demonstrate in the laboratory, create water by mixing of oxygen, like that. That is science. But if you simply theorize, and when I say that you now practically prove, you say “Wait millions of years,” that is nonsense; that is not science.
That is nonsense. The observation and experiment. Simply observing is not science. And observing, this chemical, this chemical is being combined, then it can be… First of all, observation. But when you put into, what is called, experiment, and practically show, then it is… They say that life is generated by combination of chemicals. So now show me by experiment, then it is science.
Otherwise it is nonsense. The things are going on like this. They are suggesting that life is combination of chemical, but when you ask them to show it by experiment, “Wait for millions of years.” This is not science, this is rascaldom. It is just like postdated check. If I give you check for three hundred years dated back, will you accept?
Million dollars, but the date is twenty-three, not nineteen hundred, twenty hundred, but twenty-three hundred. Will you accept that check? I can say, “By that time I’ll get this money and deposit the bank. You take the check.” Will you accept it?
Harikesa: Well, it’s better to take that check than no check.
Prabhupada: A foolish rascal will accept.
Evening Darsana
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
August 11, 1976, Tehran
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