Buddhism and Science represent two drastically different spheres that differ in their goals, the approaches to achieving the goals, and their impacts on the world. In its early form, Buddhism sought, above all, liberation from the cycle of existences and the attainment of the ultimate truth. Later in Mahayana Buddhism, the goals extended to cultivating compassion and benefiting all sentient beings. In contrast, science develops by inquiring objectively about the world and by advancing technologies. Its central tenets are empiricism and a kind of epistemology firmly rooted in logics. Its goal is to explain the unknown world and to bring material advancement to human societies.