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dently realised by the scientists that 'we are not so much of strangers or introducers as we at first thought. "They further add, 'so at least we are tempted to conjecture today and yet who knows how many more time the stream of knowledge may turn on itself? What might well have been interlined into every paragraph that everything that has been said and every conclusion that has been tentatively put forward is quite frankly speculative and uncertain." It is clear from the above observations that the scientists are losing faith in their own conclusions. This is evident from what Sir James Jeans observes in concluding portions of his book Physics and Philosophy. 'Many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth century are once again in the melting pot It is not that some ordinary scientist has started talking about spiritualis m in the materialistic world, but the facts have gone further still.
The thoughts of different scientists on the question of soul:
"I believe that intelligence 19 manifested throughout all nature "38
Prof. Albert Einstein.
"Some thing unknown is doing we do not know what? I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousThe old atheism is gone.
ness.
38 Modern Review of Calcutta, July 1936, p 19-20
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