Varadaraja V. Raman Quotes

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

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.

Bookish academics need to remember that when it comes to analyzing works regarded as sacred by vast numbers of people, sound scholarship is like the firmness of bones, while appreciation and sensitivity are like flesh and blood. Without the latter, the former is merely an ugly skeleton: morbid and monstrous, lifeless and lamentable. With the latter, scholarship becomes robust and living.

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

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.

It has been said that science is proof without certainty, where as religion is certainty without proof.

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

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

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

If a and b yield C, but C is not equal to a+b, then we have emergence.

While we have footprints on the sands of time, there is no trace of things yet to come.

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

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.

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.

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