All knowledge perfects when directed toward understanding Krishna as the ultimate cause of everything.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.22 — August 3, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740803SB-VRNDAVAN [32:10 Minutes] SB-01.05.22_740803SB-VRNDAVAN Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [devotees repeat] idaṁ hi puṁsas tapasaḥ śrutasya vā sviṣṭasya sūktasya ca buddhi-dattayoḥ avicyuto 'rthaḥ kavibhir nirūpito yad-uttamaśloka-guṇānuvarṇanam [SB 1.5.22] [break] [02:22] Translation: "Learned circles have positively concluded that the infallible purpose of the advancement of knowledge, namely austerities, study of the Vedas, sacrifice, chanting of hymns and charity, culminates in the transcendental descriptions of the Lord, who is defined in choice poetry." Devotee: Would you like the stand to be lower?
Prabhupāda: No. idaṁ hi puṁsas tapasaḥ śrutasya vā sviṣṭasya sūktasya ca buddhi-dattayoḥ avicyuto 'rthaḥ kavibhir nirūpito yad-uttamaśloka-guṇānuvarṇanam [SB 1.5.22] So this is our mission, that find out the original cause. That is scientific research. All the scientist, they are trying to find out the original cause. That is advancement of education.
They are analyzing, one after another. But till now, they could not find it out. Big, big scientists have tried, but they could not... Only theory: "This is the original cause.
This is the original cause." But we do not depend on the theories. We depend on the Vedic conclusion. We do not require to make any research. Just like ordinarily we say there are 900,000 forms of body in the water.
We get it from Vedic knowledge: jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi [Padma Purāṇa]. Now, the biologists, let them confirm it or deny it. Because... They cannot confirm it, because their knowledge is experimental.
Unless they find it actually, by actual experience, that there are so many living forms within the water, they cannot say "Yes." Neither they are able to find it out. Is it not the position? First of all, if we say to the biologists that "There are 900,000 different forms of life or species within the water," they will say, "How it is you are affirming in, so positively, without experiment, without research?" They'll say. Then we'll ask, "Then you say." That they cannot say.
This is their position. They'll say, "In future." Future, there is no question. You do not know now. Admit this.