Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the question. "Science cannot reduce the magic of a sunset to arithmetic, nor can it express friendship with a formula" observed the…
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Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.
"Science cannot reduce the magic of a sunset to arithmetic, nor can it express friendship with a formula" observed the eminent medical researcher, Dr. Lous Orr. He added, "also beyond science's mastery of nature are love and laughter, pain and loneliness and insights into truth and beauty". This distancing of science from the human condition perhaps explains why most foreign tourists visiting Britain flock predictably to see the hallowed homes of playwrights, writers and poets, but choose to ignore the habitations where its eminent scientists lived and worked.
"Science cannot reduce the magic of a sunset to arithmetic, nor can it express friendship with a formula" observed the eminent medical researcher, Dr. Lous Orr. He added, "also beyond science's mastery of nature are love and laughter, pain and loneliness and insights into truth and beauty". This distancing of science from the human condition perhaps explains why most foreign tourists visiting Britain flock predictably to see the hallowed homes of playwrights, writers and poets, but choose to ignore the habitations where its eminent scientists lived and worked.
Why is it that science cannot express friendship with a formula?
- Science and friendship cannot co-exist
- It is an abstract term which science cannot grapple with
- Science has not yet found time to study friendship
- Friendship is unknown to scientists
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B - It is an abstract term which science cannot grapple with
Friendship, like love, laughter and loneliness, belongs to the human condition: it is an abstract feeling that science's formulas cannot grapple with. The passage does not support the claims that science and friendship cannot co-exist, that science has not found time to study friendship, or that friendship is unknown to scientists.
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