Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
“A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete.”
Bennington College address (1970)
Context: A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.
Source: The Revolt of the Masses (1929), Chapter XII: The Barbarism Of "Specialisation"
“Much of good science — and perhaps all of great science — has its roots in fantasy.”
Source: Letters to a Young Scientist (2013), chapter 5, "The Creative Process", page 69.
“Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.”
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
On conversations with Rabindranath Tagore, as quoted in Uncommon Wisdom: Conversations With Remarkable People (1988) by Fritjof Capra, who states that after these "He began to see that the recognition of relativity, interconnectedness, and impermanence as fundamental aspects of physical reality, which had been so difficult for himself and his fellow physicists, was the very basis of the Indian spiritual traditions."
As quoted in Pride of India (2006) by Samskrita Bharati. p. 56
Variant: After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
