"It is only a recent fashion for scientists to scoff at spirituality. If you go back in history, not too far, up to Newton and Galileo, you will find that science and spirituality made a perfect mix. I am not sure if you are aware that Newton wanted to be a priest. He was a great believer in God. He was always amazed by the power of God. For example, he believed in absolute space, a concept in physics. But of course, now we know that there is no absolute space, there is only absolute space time, and that came with Albert Einstein; however, that is a different story. But Newton said you must have absolute space; otherwise it wont be consistent with divinity. Similarly, he looked at the thumb and said, this thumb alone is enough to prove the existence of God. Newton was not an isolated singularity as we say in mathematics. He was not an exception at all. That was the kind of feeling that prevailed. As late as the 1920s, Werner Heisenberg, who discovered the laws of Quantum Physics for the first time, later wrote a letter to his sister in which he said, "I felt as if I was looking over the shoulder of the Lord as He was composing the symphony of the universe". And Heisenberg was a Nobel Prize winner. I will not give a long list but just jump to Charles Townes, a profesor from Columbia who got the Nobel Prize for discovering the principle of the Maser and Laser. He said, "Science explains the 'how' of the universe and spiritual philosophy and the religion explain the 'why' of the universe".
" When I started my scientific career, I would think of God at certain times and science at other times. As I grew up and became older and wiser, I realised that science was only one half of the story and the spirituality the missing half, as Bhagavan Baba says. Unless you have all of it together, you will not have the whole picture" - Dr. G. Venkataram, an eminent scientist and former Vice Chancellor of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (excerpts from Sanathana Sarathi November 2010).
