Varadaraja V. Raman: Likeness

Varadaraja V. Raman is American physicist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
Varadaraja V. Raman: 46 quotes0 likes

“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.”

Varadaraja V. Raman

page 176
Truth and Tension in Science and Religion

“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.”

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page 194
Truth and Tension in Science and Religion

“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.”

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Truth and Tension in Science and Religion

“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.”

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page 171
Truth and Tension in Science and Religion

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

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Truth and Tension in Science and Religion

“the technical work of scientists is blind to nationalities, they overlap and mingle like sounds from different instruments in an orchestra to create and constitute the grand symphony that science is.”

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Truth and Tension in Science and Religion

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

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Truth and Tension in Science and Religion

“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.”

Varadaraja V. Raman

Quoted in Pratap Kumar, "A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in India," in New Approaches to the Study of Religion, Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, and Randi R. Warne, editors, 2004, p. 132.