Philosophy and Methodology of Present - Day Science

What is, and how should we recognize, the present-day science? We know both ancient Greek science and modern science after the Renaissance, as being contrasted to the present-day science. There are opinions such that Greek science should not be taken as a science. Nevertheless, I think it is also the science and bears a great significance even in the present age. Namely, various thoughts developed in Greek science show their profound effects in the present-day science. It is not too much to say that all learnings have their common origin in Greece. For example, the fundamental thinking on atomic research, to which I have been devoting myself, is well-known to be stemmed from Greek thinkers. In fact, the modern and the present-day sciences have been effected decisively from the atomism developed in ancient Greek schools by Democritus, Epicurous and others, who proposed atom theories in which they conceived, beyond human sensual abilities, microscopic particles-atoms-as the constituents of the whole universe. In all events, Greek science is a science which played a great role in our human history. The history then greeted the Renaissance after the Dark Ages of medieval centuries. A new science which was created in the Renaissance, i.e., the modern science, possesed a new character different from Greek science as was symbolized by the words "knowledge is the power of mankind" of Francis Bacon, and contributed greatly to the advancement of humanity. In today's science there remain still many characteristic phases inherited from the modern science; many people are, therefore, looking to the character of today's science as merely a continuous succession of the modern science. I think, however, that the present-day science is not, and should not be, the Greek science nor the modern science; it has and should have a significance as a new phase of science. Science is now confronting a grave crisis from both internal and external causes; the reason for it is that today's science has not yet cast off the traditional skin