khieman
05-09-2014, 06:36 AM
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Notable scientists on Buddhism
Niels Bohr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr), who developed the Bohr Model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_Model) of the atom, said:
“For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory...[we must turn] to those kinds of epistemological (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.[22] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science#cite_note-22)”
Nobel-prize winning philosopher Bertrand Russell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell) described Buddhism as a speculative and scientific philosophy:
“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.[23] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science#cite_note-23)”
The American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer) made an analogy to Buddhism when describing the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg_uncertainty_principle):
“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.[24] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science#cite_note-24)
”Nobel-prize winning physicist Albert Einstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein), who developed the general theory of relativity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_theory_of_relativity) and the special theory of relativity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_theory_of_relativity), also known for his mass–energy equivalence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence), described Buddhism as containing a strong cosmic element:
“...there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call it the cosmic religious sense. This is hard to make clear to those who do not experience it, since it does not involve an anthropomorphic idea of God; the individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance. Indications of this cosmic religious sense can be found even on earlier levels of development—for example, in the Psalms of David and in the Prophets. The cosmic element is much stronger in Buddhism, as, in particular, Schopenhauer's magnificent essays have shown us. The religious geniuses of all times have been distinguished by this cosmic religious sense, which recognizes neither dogmas nor God made in man's image. Consequently there cannot be a church whose chief doctrines are based on the cosmic religious experience. It comes about, therefore, that we find precisely among the heretics of all ages men who were inspired by this highest religious experience; often they appeared to their contemporaries as atheists, but sometimes also as saints.[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science#cite_note-25)
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Notable scientists on Buddhism
Niels Bohr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr), who developed the Bohr Model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_Model) of the atom, said:
“For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory...[we must turn] to those kinds of epistemological (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.[22] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science#cite_note-22)”
Nobel-prize winning philosopher Bertrand Russell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell) described Buddhism as a speculative and scientific philosophy:
“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.[23] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science#cite_note-23)”
The American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer) made an analogy to Buddhism when describing the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg_uncertainty_principle):
“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.[24] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science#cite_note-24)
”Nobel-prize winning physicist Albert Einstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein), who developed the general theory of relativity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_theory_of_relativity) and the special theory of relativity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_theory_of_relativity), also known for his mass–energy equivalence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence), described Buddhism as containing a strong cosmic element:
“...there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call it the cosmic religious sense. This is hard to make clear to those who do not experience it, since it does not involve an anthropomorphic idea of God; the individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance. Indications of this cosmic religious sense can be found even on earlier levels of development—for example, in the Psalms of David and in the Prophets. The cosmic element is much stronger in Buddhism, as, in particular, Schopenhauer's magnificent essays have shown us. The religious geniuses of all times have been distinguished by this cosmic religious sense, which recognizes neither dogmas nor God made in man's image. Consequently there cannot be a church whose chief doctrines are based on the cosmic religious experience. It comes about, therefore, that we find precisely among the heretics of all ages men who were inspired by this highest religious experience; often they appeared to their contemporaries as atheists, but sometimes also as saints.[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science#cite_note-25)
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