Top 15 Varadaraja V. Raman Quotes

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

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.

Ultimately, we all become photographs.

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

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

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

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

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

Mysteries, to most scientists, are meta-stable states of non-understanding, often like darkness before dawn. Like the morning dew, they evaporate away by the light of new knowledge, causing an euphoric eureka.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.