Scientists study inferior material atoms while remaining blind to the superior spiritual atoms that Krishna openly reveals.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Atomic theory... Acyutānanda: The atomic theory. Dayānanda: What is the atomic theory? Hṛdayānanda: Atomic...
That everything is constituted of different atoms, and the ultimate truth is the atomic particle, and by different combinations of these particles, different material manifestations are produced, and there's no other cause except this endless combining of atomic particles.
Prabhupāda: Wherefrom the atom comes? Hṛdayānanda: The atom is the eternal fact. It is inconceivable, or it's unexplainable, where it has come from.
Prabhupāda: Then what is the use of your explaining?
Prabhupāda: Then you prove yourself you are a rascal. Inexplicable? Why you are trying to explain? Guru-kṛpā: "We're not explaining.
We're just accepting it's a fact." Prabhupāda: So everything is fact. But the real knowledge is to find out the source of the fact. That is real knowledge. Just like if we ask any gentleman—at least in India—for your identification, your father's name is required, your name of the village is required.
If you go to the court, then such and such: father's name, such and such; village, this; religion, this; like this... So father... Why father's name? "What is the source of your existence?