Varadaraja V. Raman Quotes

all the light and beauty, all the grandeur and majesty of the universe are unraveled only in the tiny retinas of human beings.

The spiritual quest is the expression of the deepest longing to connect with the Whole.

Modern science rests on a universality that transcends ethnic, racial, and religious frameworks.

The aesthetic dimensions of science, like that of great classical music, are evident to the aficionado.

Ultimately, we all become photographs.

The fact is, when we are born, we are neither theists nor atheists, but ignoro-theists.

Of all the wondrous elements in our vast and complex universe, there is perhaps nothing more intriguing, than consciousness.

If we do not wonder about origins and ends at least once during life’s journey, we are but biochemical blobs that devour matter and energy for a time-span, sport and make noise, and then go into eternal extinction.

science and religion are intrinsically interconnected both being expressions of the human spirit.

What debaters in ivory towers often fail to realize is that when it comes to achieving well-defined goals, both theism and atheism can work.

The person of faith, in ritual or worship, while reciting a prayer, singing a psalm, and invoking a mantra, feels deep within a communion that, like the philosopher’s stone of alchemy, transforms the lead and copper of animal existence into the silver and gold of divine delight.

When the poet said that for him poetry was not a purpose, but a passion, he was also expressing the feelings of the true scientist to his own field.

The religious approach to spirituality is like delighting in a gourmet meal; the scientific approach is like studying recipes or chemically analyzing the ingredients of the menu.

condemning religions as a whole would be like wanting to destroy a garden because weeds have disfigured it.

Religions are like lofty peaks rising high above the surrounding plains of our physical being, merging, as it were, into the distant domain of heaven itself, beckoning the human spirit with grandeur.