Science & Technology: Looking beyond their ordinary differences

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (diaogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner: What is the difference between science and technology? What is science? Where does science come from? Is science the mother of technology? Is science the logic behind technology?

Acharya Prashant:

Science comes from direct observation of the fact. One pays attention to the thing right in front. One looks deeply at the object without allowing thoughts to wander. One keeps away his personal opinions and biases. Only the direct present fact is respected. This is science. Do we see?

Q: And when we say that science comes from direct observation, is our observation always correct ?

AP: So, without imagining, one looks at the pendulum in deep attention. No imaginations or fantasies. And one discovers the fact of the relation of its time period with its length. It is not imagined. It is there. As a fact.

Newton looks at the falling apple- attentively- and comes across the fact of gravity. No imaginations, just observation.

Kepler watches the planets. Somebody watches a magnet, somebody watches the flow of water, somebody watches the dispersion of light, somebody listens to echoes, somebody observes the…