Pakistan’s social advance requires a vigorous and downright promotion and enablement of free critical thinking. This is because the history of civilization is the history of the displacement of old conceptions by new ones more conformable to the facts. It is the record of the removal of old institutions and ways of living, in favor of others of greater convenience and ampler capacity, at once multiplying and satisfying human requirements.

 

Pakistanis who take the trouble to form their own opinions and beliefs will feel that they owe no responsibility to the majority for their conclusions. If they are genuine lovers of truth, if they are inspired by the divine passion for seeing things as they are, and a divine abhorrence of holding ideas which do not conform to the facts, they will be wholly independent of the approval or assent of the persons around them. 

 

Pakistan only grows better, even in the moderate degree in which it does grow better, because citizens wish that it should, and take the right steps to make it better. 

 

Evolution is not a force, but a process; not a cause, but a law. Vibrant social energy to make rapid progressive advances will be produced by creating a culture of optimism that we can achieve radical social modifications in our lifetime. Progress is produced by means of citizens who are possessed by special progressive ideas. Such ideas do not spring up uncaused and unconditioned in vacant space. They have had a definite origin and ordered antecedents. They are in direct relation with the past. 

 

We need to create a culture of unhindered critical thinking so that we can produce citizens of rare intelligence, active, alert, inventive, who by constitution or training find their chief happiness in thinking in a disciplined and serious manner how things can be better done. 

 

A review of Pakistan’s social structure points to three major sources of obstructions in the way of free thought:

• Dynastic political parties: Nepotism is preventing people from conceiving a freer democracy in their country. 

• Maulvis and Islamic clergy: These ill-informed religious clerks misguide the nation and prevent scientific thought to develop. 

• Repressive Martial Law: Naked aggression and use-of-force is applied to suppress free opinion. 

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Pakistanis resolve to create a fact-based culture of free thinking to build courage for a portion of our society that can have enough nerve to grasp the banner of a new truth, and endurance enough to bear it along rugged and untrodden ways in the face of obstruction. We must build a culture of scientific experimentation and research, we must support the most innovative and potentially transformative research, research that has the capacity to revolutionize existing fields, create new subfields, cause paradigm shifts in our national life. Science must be conceived as a companion to religion and not as an antagonistic force. Sir Isaac Newton writes in "The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy":