We can see the connection between Science and Buddhism through characters of the scientist Thomas Henry Huxley. He (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist (comparative anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Thomas Henry Huxley’s view on Buddhism
Thomas Hexley said that, “Buddhism is a system which knows no God in the
Western sense, which denies a soul to man and counts the belief in immortality
a blunder, which refuses any efficacy to prayer and sacrifice, which bids men
to look to nothing but their own effort for salvation, which in its original
purity knew nothing of the vows of obedience and never sought the aid of
secular arm, yet spread over a considerable portion of the world with marvelous
rapidity and is still the dominant creed of a large fraction of mankind.”
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