Religion and Science
5. Religion and Science
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without having any material existence. Such
reasons have compelled Jeans to conclude that the
substance of the universe is thought, not matter.
Now where is this thought situated? His answer is
that it exists in the mind of a great ‘mathematical
thinker’? Because the structure of this thought that
comes to our mind is a completely mathematical
structure. The ‘great Architect of the Universe thus
begins to appear as a pure mathematician,’
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Sir James Jeans then states the entire case with great
precision:
It seems at least safe to say that the river of
knowledge has made a sharp bend in the last
few years. Thirty years ago, we thought, or
assumed, that we were heading towards an
ultimate reality of a mechanical kind. It
seemed to consist of fortuitous jumble of
atoms, which was destined to perform
meaningless dances for a time under the
action of blind purposeless forces, and then
fall back to form a dead world. Into this
wholly mechanical world, through the play of
the same blind forces, life had stumbled by
