Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty for in it are born our art our science our religion.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas ' which was entirely science-fiction driven or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion with God and all that.
Science like art religion commerce warfare and even sleep is based on presuppositions.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
Indeed in view of its function religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because in a way both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.
Go beyond science into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
When push comes to shove it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief the spiritual side of life that's going to lift you up no matter what religion you are.
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
Formerly when religion was strong and science weak men mistook magic for medicine now when science is strong and religion weak men mistake medicine for magic.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means in both science and religion by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
Actually I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
The whole of science and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here and how do you fit in and what's it all about.
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories our pride our selfishness our malice our passions which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame but probably only for this reason that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.