Science is based on finding the truth and acting accordingly, though the situation may keep changing, as seen with the Covid-19 pandemic. One has to adjust flexibly to recognize and accept the real position and overcome the emerging problems making best use of the available resources. I hope I will be forgiven for mentioning some personal experiences in the last few years to make clear the attitudinal changes that need to be made to help our country and people overcome the massive problems confronting us. I was requested to resign from the post of Governor of the North Central Province and to come to Basil Rajapaksa’s office to sign the National List to enter Parliament. I was informed by several persons that I would be a Cabinet Minister once again as the leader of the LSSP, a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Podujana Alliance, and a former minister. In all probability, as the Minister of Science and Technology, as I had promoted the development of local value added industries, the policy of our new government. In this capacity, I had set up 263 Vidatha Development Centres, one in each administrative division, and in four years helped develop over 12,300 micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Over 20,000 youth received free training in ICT. Through SLAB (which I set up through a new Act) and the SLSI, quality products resulted (17 exported, 64 sent to local food chains and 53 to hotels).