“My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation:  if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims of Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.” -Dalai Lama from The Universe in a Single Atom 2005

“Buddhism and science have increasingly been discussed as compatible.  Some philosophic and psychological teachings within Buddhism share commonalities with modern Western scientific and philosophic thought. For example, Buddhism encourages the impartial investigation of nature (an activity referred to as Dhamma-Vicaya in the Pali Canon) – the principal object of study being oneself. A reliance on causality and empiricism are common philosophical principles shared between Buddhism and science.”  -from Wikipedia article, Science and Religion.