THE UNIVERSE IN A SINGLE ATOM (Spanish version below) The Dalai Lama himself took a personal journey into understanding science. His conclusion is that science and technology must be included in the education of monks. Both science and spirituality help reduce human suffering; the former acts on a physical level and the latter bolsters change in the heart and within human attitudes to reduce mental suffering. However, science needs ethics as spirituality needs to accept scientific development. Scientific materialism in its limit is a metaphysical position that brings nihilism since there is more to human existence and reality than what science currently knows. There are some relevant similarities in the way that both science and Buddhism look for knowledge: experience is above reason, which is above theory. Buddhism also accepts inference. However, science is only empirical whereas Buddhism is empirical, metaphysical and ethical since reality is wider than the empirical world. Th...