Q29: TPSC Prelims 2022 GS: Previous Year Question with Answer

PASSAGE Dreams are the sunrise streamers heralding a new day of scientific progress, another forward surge. Every forward step man takes, in any field of life, is first taken along the dreamy paths of imagination. Poets are dreamers, but it would be wrong to assume that the dreams of poet have no practical value beyond the realm of literary diversion. The truth is that poets are just as practical as people who build bridges or look into microscopes ; and just as close to reality and truth. Only that they are ahead of their time, while engineers and scientists are rooted to their contemporary time. The poet says to the scientist, “Here, I give you a flash of the future.” The wise scientiest thanks him, and takes that flash of the future and makes it over into a fibre of today. The automobile was not dug out of the ground like a nugget of gold, it was first envisioned in a dream of a poet. Afterward, long afterward, the practical-minded engineers caught up with what had been created by winging fantasy. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage ?