The point of science is not to prove or disprove religious beliefs, but to provide us with a clearer understanding of the world around us.
The idea that science has proven religion wrong is a relatively recent one. Indeed, one could easily argue that science has shown religion to be an inadequate means of acquiring knowledge.
To assert that the universe is 'mindless' is to assert that its capacity to give rise to mind (which is to say, consciousness) is purely incidental.
It is often asserted that science has proven religion wrong. This assertion, however, is incorrect. What has happened is that certain scientific findings have rendered certain religious beliefs untenable.
Do not become attached to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.
Knowledge is, simply, facts. Education is information endowed with meaning and purpose. Facts are, simply, data. Education is data endowed with meaning and purpose.
Even in common scientific usage, the 'I' is a somewhat mysterious entity. What, exactly, is it? Where is it? What does it do?
Happily, of course, we have learned to distrust the dogmatic cry of 'absolutely.' History is littered with the ruins of those who have believed that they were absolutely right.
A mistaken idea is a mistake in any circumstances. Truth, however, always retains its value, whatever the circumstances under which it is enunciated.
Education is powerful, in no small measure because it brings us up against such powerful forces, such as the limits of our own intellects, the biases of our own cultures, and the narrowness of our own perspectives.
Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect, mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all
A nerve stimulus, no matter how weak, always produces a perceivable nervous impulse. If, then, you were to attempt to reason the nerve stimulus out of causal efficacy, you would be absolutely obliged to assume that a weaker stimulus could never produce a
In the conditions of modern life, the rule is absolute: the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
