"Bookish academics need to remember that when it comes to analyzing works regarded as sacred by vast numbers of people, sound scholarship is like the firmness of bones, while appreciation and sensitivity are like flesh and blood. Without the latter, the former is merely an ugly skeleton: morbid and monstrous, lifeless and lamentable. With the latter, scholarship becomes robust and living."
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Varadaraja V. Raman
Varadaraja V. Raman (born May 28, 1932, in Calcutta, India) is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has authored numerous books, more than 300 book reviews and scores of articles on science and religion. He is an active member of organizations devoted to building understanding between science and the humanities. In 2005 he was elected Senior Fellow of the Metanexus Institute on Science and Religion. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Raja Rao
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