1) The document traces the author's evolving understanding of science from primary school through university. 2) At primary school, science was seen as a way to solve mysteries, but the author later learned of its limitations and uncertainties. 3) At university, the author learned principles like relativity and quantum mechanics that showed science cannot provide absolute truths. 4) The conclusion draws a contrast between Western science's focus on technology and domination versus Eastern philosophies like Buddhism that emphasize impermanence and living in harmony.

1. From Science to RealitybyNalakaGamagewww.nalakainfo.com

2. What I thought at primary school I do not know much on how things work.

3. My science teacher knows everything.

4. Learning science will solve all my mysteries.What I was taught at secondary school (O/L) Atom is indivisible unit of all matter

5. Electrons travel in well defined orbitalWhat I learnt at secondary school (O/L) How electricity works.

6. How NaCl (salt) is formed.

7. How does steel corrode.What I was programmed to think at secondary school (O/L) Science is truth.

8. Science is definite and precise.

9. Concrete, Stable, Permanence. Electrons at different levels travel on different shaped orbits.What I learnt at high school (A/L)“ People understood how to make petrol and alcohol”

10. What I was programmed to think at secondary school (A/L) Science is complex.

11. Science is bit of mystery.

12. I may be not as good as great scientist who know it best.What I learned at universitySpecial principle of relativity (Einstein) :Physical laws should be the same in every inertial frame of reference, but that they may vary across non-inertial onesWhat I learned at universityHeisenberg uncertainty principle : The measurement of position necessarily disturbs a particle's momentum, and vice versa

13. Orbiting electrons around a nucleus could not be fully described as particles, but needed to be explained by the wave-particle dualityWhat I learned at universityThe reality (at last):You can't know with certainty both where an electron is and where it's going next

14. An electron can be found anywhere (with varying probability) around the nucleusWhat we found at the university Science is not the truth.

15. Science is mere looking at nature at different levels so that we can understand few things.

16. Science itself has found it’s limit now.What the Buddha taught 2500 years back?"Whatever is subject to origination (samudaya) is subject to cessation (nirodha)" - MN 56"All is impermanent. And what is the all that is impermanent?" - SN 35.43/vol.iv, 28

17. Evolution of knowledgePrimary SchoolHopefulExcitingSecondarySchoolConfusedHighSchoolEnlightenment ? - What the Buddha taught 2500 years back.University