Varadaraja V. Raman
Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the w:Rochester Institute of Technology.
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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.
Modern science rests on a universality that transcends ethnic, racial, and religious frameworks.
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 – page 194
Ultimately, we all become photographs.
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 – page 166
While we have footprints on the sands of time, there is no trace of things yet to come.
science and religion are intrinsically interconnected both being expressions of the human spirit. – page 10
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