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.
Which of the following are beyond science's reach, according to the passage?
- Love and laughter, pain and loneliness
- Derivation of a formula
- Complexity of time and tide
- Work of the mind
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A - Love and laughter, pain and loneliness
The passage lists 'love and laughter, pain and loneliness' as things beyond science's mastery of nature. Deriving a formula is the kind of task science does, and the passage says nothing about time and tide or the work of the mind.
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