Science and Religion

Do you not see whether science is tending? The Hindu nation proceeded through the study of the mind, through metaphysics and logic. The European nations start from external nature, and now they, too, are coming to the same results. We find that, searching through the mind, we at last come to that Oneness, that universal one, the internal soul of everything, the essence and reality of everything….. Through material science, we come to the same oneness.’
The Srimad Bhagavatam refers to this complementary character of physical science and the science of religion, with the respect of human knowledge and fulfillment, in a profound utterance of Sri Krsna.

Prayena manuja loke
Loka-tattva-vicaksanah;
Samuddharanti hyatmanam
Atmanaiva-subhasayat-

‘Generally, in the world, men who are efficient in the investigation of the truth of the external world or nature, uplift themselves by themselves from all sources of evil.’