Buddhism in Eyes of Intellectuals

Negative Answer of The Buddha

“If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no';  if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no';  if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'. 

The Buddha has given such answers when interrogated as to the conditions of a man's self after his death; but they are not familiar answers for the tradition of seventeenth and eighteenth century science.” 
 

J. Robert Oppenheimer
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