Are you frustrated that science and faith seem at odds?
Do you find one or more of the following quotations
intriguing or captivating?
Then probe deeper in Reason and Wonder.
Do you find one or more of the following quotations
intriguing or captivating?
Then probe deeper in Reason and Wonder.
We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are between stories--eco-theologian Thomas Berry (Introduction, p. xvii)
Awe is the beginning of wisdom.--Rabbi Heschel (Preface, p. ix)
Some day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.--Teilhard de Chardin (Epilogue, p. 351)
Of all discoveries and opinions none may have exerted a greater effect on the human spirit than the doctrine of Copernicus.--Goethe (Introduction, p. 15)
A human being is part of the whole, called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separate from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion, to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.--Albert Einstein (Epilogue, p. 349)
[Darwinism] was the second, the biological blow to human narcissism.
--Sigmund Freud (Introduction, p. 15)
--Sigmund Freud (Introduction, p. 15)
Whatever matter is, it isn’t made of matter.
--Hans-Peter Durr (Chapter 15, A World Aflame, p. 311)
--Hans-Peter Durr (Chapter 15, A World Aflame, p. 311)
The labor of seaweed as it concentrates in its tissues the substances scattered, in infinitesimal quantities, throughout the vast layers of the ocean; the industry of the bees as they make honey from the juices broadcast in so many flowers--these are but pale images of the ceaseless working-over that all the forces of the universe undergo in us in order to reach the level of the spirit.--Teilhard de Chardin
(Chapter 17, Pale Images, p. 335, read more by clicking here)
(Chapter 17, Pale Images, p. 335, read more by clicking here)
. . . the stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.
--Sir James Jeans, thermodynamicist, astronomer. (Chapter 15, A World Aflame, p. 314)
--Sir James Jeans, thermodynamicist, astronomer. (Chapter 15, A World Aflame, p. 314)
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could produce the human molecule.
--Teilhard de Chardin (Chapter 15, A World Aflame, p. 312)
--Teilhard de Chardin (Chapter 15, A World Aflame, p. 312)
