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Sources of Man’s Knowledge

Vikram A Sarabhai

I was reading the other day an account of some famous Spanish Captains, who, many centuries ago, undertook daring voyages of exploration in unchartered oceans far from home. The explorers had to persuade their King to provide good ships with men and stores. They presented prospects based partly on the fragmentary observations of earlier explorers, but largely on imaginative dreams. Craving for knowledge, a romantic love for nature and adventure, lust for wealth and power, courage of a rare type – these were the ingredients which pushed forward man’s exploration of the earth. Today the scene differs only in detail, in dress, and certainly in the number of copies in which project proposals have to be submitted to sponsors!

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