Varadaraja V. Raman Quotes
born 1932 India
Varadaraja V. Raman (born May 28, 1932, in Calcutta, India) is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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While we have footprints on the sands of time, there is no trace of things yet to come.
Of all the wondrous elements in our vast and complex universe, there is perhaps nothing more intriguing, than consciousness.
The aesthetic dimensions of science, like that of great classical music, are evident to the aficionado.
It has been said that science is proof without certainty, where as religion is certainty without proof.
The spiritual quest is the expression of the deepest longing to connect with the Whole.
If a and b yield C, but C is not equal to a+b, then we have emergence.
Modern science rests on a universality that transcends ethnic, racial, and religious frameworks.
The fact is, when we are born, we are neither theists nor atheists, but ignoro-theists.
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.
We are creatures, not only of the mind, but of feelings and emotions as well. Indeed, feelings and emotions are more fundamental to our being than pure logic and reasoning.
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 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.
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.
Religious naturalism is an approach to experiencing and appreciating nature with the awe, reverence, and respect that are usually associated with religion, but without the metaphysical paraphernalia of the latter.
Ultimately, we all become photographs.
all the light and beauty, all the grandeur and majesty of the universe are unraveled only in the tiny retinas of human beings.
When one is involved in the discovery and discernment of the marvelous law and symmetries that shape the phenomenal world, one cannot but be struck by the silent and unfathomable intelligence that seems to pervade the Cosmos.
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.
condemning religions as a whole would be like wanting to destroy a garden because weeds have disfigured it.
science and religion are intrinsically interconnected both being expressions of the human spirit.