If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.

The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit ... we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.