“My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation: if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.”
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- Wikiquote: Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (2005).
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Lama, Dalai. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama
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