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1 " ...concepts have three fundamental properties—contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction—which independent things do not. To produce a mental world from the physical world, the physical world must first explain how contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction can arise. "
― Ashish Dalela , Uncommon Wisdom: Fault Lines in the Foundations of Atheism
2 " ...there is much more to matter than modern science currently would like to acknowledge. By developing insights about the observer, we can describe matter in a new way. "
― Ashish Dalela , Sankhya and Science: Applications of Vedic Philosophy to Modern Science
3 " ...quantum problems unseat many classical ideas about matter, causality, and change that biologists use, and that disruption in turn entails radical revisions to the ideas about the mechanism in evolution, in ways we don't yet acknowledge. "
― Ashish Dalela , Signs of Life: A Semantic Critique of Evolutionary Theory
4 " ...every physicist knows that the laws of physics can be used to build a gun or a bicycle; physics does not dictate a specific use for its laws. To that extent, it should be obvious that the laws of physics are incomplete in predicting everything that occurs in nature—from Moral Materialism "
― Ashish Dalela
5 " Matter is a medium of communication between minds, and everything that exists in the mind can also exist in the body. Furthermore, the body—being the expression of a mental state is developed as a manifestation of the mind. "
― Ashish Dalela , Six Causes: The Vedic Theory of Creation
6 " A universe of classical particles is devoid of knowledge because the universe can only be itself and not a representation of something else. If the universe was only composed of classical particles, then there would only be physical properties but no meanings. The idea that we can have information about an object without becoming that object is central to all knowledge. "
― Ashish Dalela , Quantum Meaning: A Semantic Interpretation of Quantum Theory
7 " The Vedic viewpoint presents a type of linguistic realism in which reality is the 'text' which is being processed by the observer. Reality can also be modified by adding text to it similar to how a programmer programs a computer by inputting a computer program. "
― Ashish Dalela , Is the Apple Really Red?: 10 Essays on Science and Religion
8 " A theory of reality must not only explain reality, but also knowledge about that reality because knowing reality is part of reality. "
9 " Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all. —Bhagavad Gita "
