[Is science coming to the end?]

Comparing opinions about science expressed by English public opinion in study from 1950 and 1970, the author has presented infavourable collision of social expectations and the abilities of science, mainly medicine. They bring the fruits in form of loosing hope of usefulness scientifc research work, and less interest of young people in scientifc career. The author has presented critical opinions on present science, expressed by science philosophers and scientists themselves. As an opposition to reductionism, predicting the end of science, he has presented the phenomena of chaos and complexity - which are the revulsion towards holistic understanding of life. He comes to conclusion, that though the science is passing through crises, its basic structure stays intact, and benefts coming from it is indisputable.