#scienc

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159) ↗

— Michael Shermer

#darwinism #evolution #intelligent-design #science #spirituality

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#inscrutable #magical #miracle #more #our

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#government #higher #law #than

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#religion #science-fiction #religion

Go by your own conscience. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#go #own #your

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this. ↗

— David Chalmers

#become #closely #consciousness #going #i

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. ↗

— David Chalmers

#helps #i #i can #language #probably

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. ↗

— David Chalmers

#always #going #i #i always #interests

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#conscience #either #honor #live #long