Scientists study nature's wonders but ignore nature's creator, treating symptoms while missing the disease of material desire.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — September 30, 1972, Los Angeles 720930MW-LOS ANGELES [14:48 Minutes] Walk_720930MW-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: …making scientific advancement why? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Because, they want to explore the wonders of nature but...
Prabhupāda: The wonders of nature that means the wonders are already there in the nature. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes and they want to know more.
Prabhupāda: Eh? Svarūpa Dāmodara: They want to know more and more.
Prabhupāda: What is the use of knowing? Kevala-bodha-labdhaye [SB 10.14.4], there are so many wonderful things, so wonderful things are being done by somebody else. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yeah.
Prabhupāda: You simply... Because you know that’s your success of life? There are so many wonders still to be known, cannot know, so what is the aim of your life? Simply to know the wonders?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: That is, that is. Śrutakīrti: That is the rain.
Prabhupāda: Eh? Śrutakīrti: That is the rain. Svarūpa Dāmodara: That is why these scientists are working so hard.