Scientists of the Bhaktivedanta Institute examine key underlying concepts of the modern life sciences in light of India's age-old Vedic knowledge. With an introductory survey of the issues by the institute's founder, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

"Physicists have found it impossible to give a satisfactory description of atomic phenomena without reference to consciousness." (Eugene Wigner, 1963 Nobel Laureate, Physics)

"The possibility is always open that there may exist an unlimited variety of additional properties, qualities, entities, systems, levels, etc. to which apply corresponding new kinds of laws of nature." (David Bohim, Professor of Physics)

"In my search for the secret of life, I ended up with atoms and electrons, which have no life at all. Somewhere along the line, life has run out through my fingers. So, in my old age, I am now retracing my steps." (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)

"We can admittedly find nothing in physics or chemistry that has even a remote bearing on consciousness. Yet all of us know that there is such a thing as consciousness, simply because we have it ourselves. Hence consciousness must be part of nature, or, more generally, of reality, which means that, quite apart from the laws of physics and chemistry, as laid down in quantum theory, we must also consider laws of quite a different kind." (Niels Bohr, 1922 Nobel Laureate, Physics)

"It seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit, consciousness, which... I can not see to be matter of force, or any conceivable modification of either..." (Thomas H. Huxley, Biologist and Humanist)