Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
For centuries the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking miracles. Training the mind to overcome the heart. Condemning religion as the opiate of the masses. They denounce God as a hallucination - a delusional crutch for those too weak to accept that life is meaningless. I could not stand by while science presumed to harness the power of God himself! Proof, you say? Yes, proof of science's ignorance! What is wrong with the admission that something exists beyond our understanding? The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!
ان الوحي الإلهي يعني أحياناً وبكل بساطة أن نضبط أذهاننا على نحو يخوّلنا سماع ماتعرفه قلوبنا
Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.
It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
Countless gods filled countless gaps,” Langdon said. “And yet, over the centuries, scientific knowledge increased.” A collage of mathematical and technical symbols flooded the sky overhead. “As the gaps in our understanding of the natural world gradually disappeared, our pantheon of gods began to shrink.
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.
Darkness feeds on apathy.
Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.
…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.
Fie ca filosofiile noastre sa tina pasul cu tehnologia. Fie ca intelegerea si compasunea noastra sa tina pasul cu puterea pe care o dobandim. Si fie ca dragostea, nu frica, sa fie motorul schimbarii noastre.
Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths. This is how the species has evolved. In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.
To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.
Știința este încercarea de a găsi dovezi fizice pentru ceea ce este necunoscut sau încă nedefinit, de a respinge superstitițiile și percepțiile greșite în favoarea adevărurilor observabile. Când știința oferă un răspuns, acesta este universal. Iar omenirea nu se războiește din cauza lui, ci face front comun în jurul lui.
