Without understanding the spirit soul, science remains blind, studying machines while ignoring the operator.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — September 28, 1972, Los Angeles 720928MW-LOS ANGELES [72:48 Minutes] Walk_720928MW-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: [indistinct] earth. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Due to distance from...
Prabhupāda: Hmm? Svarūpa Dāmodara: The relative portion between the earth and the... [break]
Prabhupāda: ...they say that it is utopian. But when they speak of "We are going to send him round in a capsule, and it will reach, and after ten thousand years it will come out," are these not utopian? They will make a station, [indistinct] station, and petrol will be direct from here and [indistinct]. All these are practical or utopian?
What is the opposite word of utopian? Jayatīrtha: Pragmatic.
Prabhupāda: Pragmatic? Jayatīrtha: Pragmatic means practical, and utopian means idealistic concept. [break] [indistinct] So many people are suffering here, famine, so many things, and they're spending so many millions of dollars. [indistinct] anyway.
Prabhupāda: Why the scientists cannot make it straight? [laughter] Svarūpa Dāmodara: Ideology is assumed in many scientific theories.
Prabhupāda: Eh? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Ideology of certain laws of certain matter, they assume it.