"The more advanced science gets, the more it becomes exclusive. People of our country have bonded well with the social, political and economic structures, but remain aloof from the laboratories," Gandhi said today at Jawaharlal Nehru University while delivering a lecture on 'Fostering Scientific Temper'.
"Indian scientists are the country's best kept secrets. They live in a secret league," he said, stressing on the need for the scientific world to be a more passionate and spirited realm.
"The immense faith of our politicians in fostering a scientific temper is visible by the number of rings on their fingers and red bands on their wrists.
"Superstition is not the progeny of intellectual stimulation; it is the pupil of the absentee science teacher and his neglect," Gandhi said.
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Citing the examples of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, the former WB governor said that fostering a scientific temper was all about doing simple things.
"Leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Mandela showed the world how weapons can be defeated with the power of satyagraha, an apt paradigm for developing a scientific temper," he added.