Historians and social scientists are as useful to the society as are biochemists and engineers because society’s ills cannot be cured by technological progress alone.

Technology has given to the human civilization what the caveman could only perceive to be the powers vested in God. If the cosmos does really have other intelligent lives residing in distant galaxies, then we might as well be classified as the most sophisticated of them all. At least NASA would agree to it. And so would Microsoft. But if we ask the same from a cadaverous man who spent his life struggling for food to survive, he sure would not be able to relate himself to any such progress. No matter how much we call our society an urbane one, there are such evils binding us from the real progr...