Science today

Manifestation, and not creation, is the word of science today, and the Hindu is only glad that what he has been cherishing in his bosom for ages is going to be taught in more forcible language, and with further light, from the latest conclusions of science.’

Although modern scientific thought does not yet have, like Vedanta, a recognized place for any spiritual reality or principle, several scientists of the twentieth century, including biologists like Teilhard de Chardin and Julian Huxley, as pointed out earlier, have endeavoured to soften the materialism of physical science and to find a place for spiritual experience in the scientific world picture. Even Thomas Huxley, as quoted earlier, had termed materialism an intruder. In this century, this protest has come from great physicists also. Sir James Jeans found that the final picture of the universe emerging from twentieth-century physical science was one in which the notion of matter was completely eliminated, ‘mind reigning supreme and alone’ (The New Background of Science).