Their choice, however, clearly indicates that science and religion need not be mutually exclusive. Indeed, Indian physicists must sometimes wonder how it is that science took several millennia to arrive at certain revelations already known to the writers of the Upanishads and the Gita; that everything is connected, that the material world is elusive and insubstantial, that time and space are not what they seem to us.
If you read quantum physicist Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland, in which he expounds for the layman, the relational interpretation of QM, you’ll find a chapter on 1st century Indian monk Nagarjuna. Erwin Schrodinger had a lifetime interest in Vedic scripture. So it does not surprise me to learn that many Indian scientists are theistic.
If I were to quote a line like “who picks a flower on earth, moves the farthest star”, you might think that was written by a Hindu, Buddhist or Sufi poet. In fact, it was physicist Paul Dirac. And so it goes on; the mysterious improbability of our very existence borders on the miraculous, which is one reason why, though they may not be religious at all, scientists like Niels Bohr, Einstein, Dirac, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking etc, cannot avoid talking about God. Like atheists, they bring His name into conversations all the time.