Varadaraja V. Raman

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."