Varadaraja V. Raman

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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 euphori…"

"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 etern…"