S Somanath did Masters in aerospace engineering, and then joined ISRO. Since then, he has been part of 11 PSLV missions, and the coveted Chandrayaan. He firmly believes science and spirituality are two different entities and should not be mixed
The ISRO chairman was following the trend of the times when he asserted that several scientific concepts originated in the Vedas and were later celebrated as discoveries of "Western civilisation". But the notion of “civilisational greatness” is irrational.
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Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. India was a knowledge society since Vedic times involving Maths, medicine, metaphysics, astronomy etc written in Sanskrit, but all such learning came back to the country several thousand years later as "discoveries by Western scientists", Indian Space Research Organisation chairman S Somnath has said. India News | ISRO Chief Hails Role of Sanskrit in India Becoming Knowledge Society Since Vedic Times.