The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should
transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both
the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious
sense arising from the experience of all things natural and
spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific
needs it would be Buddhism.
Albert Einstein
Science can give no assurance herein. But Buddhism can meet the Atomic Challenge, because the supramundane knowledge of Buddhism begins where science leaves off. And this is clear enough to anyone who has made a study of Buddhism. For, through Buddhist Meditation, the atomic constituents making up matter have been seen and felt, and the sorrow, or unsatisfactoriness (or Dukkha), of their 'arising and passing away' has made itself with what we call a 'soul' or 'atma' - the illusion of Sakkayaditthi, as it is called in the Buddha's teaching.
Egerton C. Baptist (1915-1983), Supreme Science of the Buddha Buddhism begins where science ends.
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 a man's self after his death; but they are not familiar answers
for the tradition of seventeenth and eighteenth century science.Albert Einstein
Science can give no assurance herein. But Buddhism can meet the Atomic Challenge, because the supramundane knowledge of Buddhism begins where science leaves off. And this is clear enough to anyone who has made a study of Buddhism. For, through Buddhist Meditation, the atomic constituents making up matter have been seen and felt, and the sorrow, or unsatisfactoriness (or Dukkha), of their 'arising and passing away' has made itself with what we call a 'soul' or 'atma' - the illusion of Sakkayaditthi, as it is called in the Buddha's teaching.
Egerton C. Baptist (1915-1983), Supreme Science of the Buddha Buddhism begins where science ends.
J Robert Oppenheimer
I have often said, and I shall say again and again, that between Buddhism and modern Science there exists a close intellectual bond.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia
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...It takes up where science cannnot lead because of the limitations of the latter's physical instruments.
Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
If Buddhism appealed to the modern mind it was because it was scientific, empirical and not based on any dogma.
Radhakrishnan
To read a little Buddhism is to realize that the Buddhists knew, 2,500 years ago, far more about modern problems of psychology than they have been given credit for. They studied these problems long ago and found the answers also. We are now rediscovering the ancient wisdom of the East.
Graham Howe
Sources:
Paul Carus, The Gospel of
Buddha
