Buddhism

I tell the Dalai Lama that one day, while we were working together, I called astrophysicist Michel Casse to read to him this phrase: "Everything that exists, mobile or immobile, arises from the union of the field and the knower of the field." Casse immediately replied: "But that is one of the most beautiful definitions of quantum mechanics I ever heard." Then I informed him that I had just read a phrase of Krishna's in the Bhagavad-Gita, a phrase often badly mistranslated . . . until the appearance of quantum mechanics finally allowed a correct interpretation.
		pp. 118-119
The Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carriere	Violence and Compassion Doubleday, 1996
English translation of Force du bouddhisme (Editions Robert Laffont-Fixot,1994). Conversations between Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Jean-Claude Carriere. Commentary by Carriere.