> > Einstein did comment that Buddhism "contains a much stronger element of [the > cosmic religious feeling, by which] the religious geniuses of all ages have > been distinguished."[18]
> Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961), Austrian theoretical physicist, best known > for his discovery of wave mechanics, which won him the Nobel Prize for > Physics in 1933, wished to see: "Some blood transfusion from the East to the > West" to save Western science from spiritual anemia." > David Bohm, who had a series of meetings with the Dalai Lama, was impressed > with Eastern transcendental practices: > “ [M]editation would even bring us out of all [the difficulties] we've > been talking about. . . [S]omewhere we've got to leave thought behind, and > come to this emptiness of manifest thought altogether. . . In other words, > meditation actually transforms the mind. It transforms consciousness.[19] ” > Niels Bohr, who developed the Bohr Model of the atom, said, > “ For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory...[we must turn] to those > kinds of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like the Buddha > and Lao Tzu have been confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as > spectators and actors in the great drama of existence.[20] ” > British mathematician, philosopher and Nobel Prize winner Alfred North > Whitehead (co-author, with Bertrand Russell, of Principia Mathematica, widely > considered by specialists in the subject to be one of the most important and > seminal works in mathematical logic and philosophy) declared, "Buddhism is > the most colossal example in the history of applied metaphysics."[21] > Bertrand Russell, another Nobel Prize winner, discovered a superior > scientific method—one that reconciled the speculative and the rational while > investigating the ultimate questions of life: > “ Buddhism is a combination of both speculative and scientific > philosophy. It advocates the scientific method and pursues that to a finality > that may be called Rationalistic. In it are to be found answers to such > questions of interest as: 'What is mind and matter? Of them, which is of > greater importance? Is the universe moving towards a goal? What is man's > position? Is there living that is noble?' It takes up where science cannot > lead because of the limitations of the latter's instruments. Its conquests > are those of the mind. ” > The American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer made an analogy to Buddhism when > describing the Heisenberg uncertainty principle thusly: > “ If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains > the same, we must say 'no;' if we ask whether the electron's position changes > with time, we must say 'no;' if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we > must say 'no;' if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no.' The > Buddha has given such answers when interrogated as to the conditions of man's > self after his death; but they are not familiar answers for the tradition of > seventeenth and eighteenth-century science. [22] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
