Maharaja with Professor John Eccles, Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine. He delivered the key-note address in the ‘First International Conference on the Study of Consciousness within Science’ organized by the Bhaktivedanta Institute at the University of San Francisco, 1990.
“I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neural activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition…we are spiritual beings with souls in a spiritual world, as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.”
Sir John Eccles,
Nobel Laureate
“In India, there is much more union between the two (science and spirituality) than there is in the West. I think that the Western scientists are coming back to that point of view - what the universe is all about. A few scientists are interested and their number is increasing.”
Professor Charles Townes,
Nobel Laureate
Maharaja with Professor Charles H. Townes, Nobel Laureate in Physics, reading the Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute. Professor Townes delivered the key-note address of the ‘Second World Congress for the Synthesis of Science and Religion’ held in Calcutta, India, 1997.
