Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Enlightened religious people…don’t try to use the Bible as a textbook”

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10. I found these interesting quotes

"The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena.
Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning."
(Ian Barbour, "Religion and Science," pg. 204)

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." (Albert Einstein) "

Religion is poetry plus, not science minus.&quot Krister Stendahl)

"Religion is the art of the poetic. Science is the art of the provable. Politics is the art of the possible." (Paul H. Carr) "

Science can purify religion from error and superstition;
religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish....
We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be." (-Pope John Paul II)

"There is more RELIGION in men's SCIENCE than there is SCIENCE in their RELIGION"
(David Henry Thoreau, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.&quot

COMPLEMENTARITY:
Light is both WAVE-LIKE & PARTICLE-LIKE. (Physicist Niels Bohr)
Life is BOTH, AND:
STRUCTURED LOGIC (logos, left brain) and MEANINGFUL STORY (mythos, right brain)
Truth is both OBJECTIVE & SUBJECTIVE
God is both IMMANENT & TRANSCENDENT.
SCIENCE complements RELIGION (Physicist, Paul H. Carr)

The loss of complementarity is the source of evil, according to physicist Max Born:
"For the belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world."

"Let no one enter here who does not have faith"
Inscription over the door on Max Plank's Laboratory

"The heart has its reason, which the reason can not know."
(Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, physicist, religious philosopher)

"Credo ut Intelligam" ( I believe in order to understand) St. Augustine
(Immanuel Kant)

"Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but both look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave out essential features of the real world. And both are worthy of respect." ( Physicist Freeman Dyson)

"As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which
the all-wise God perceives and understands all things." (Isaac Newton) (I personally believe science is one path to that understanding.)

I personally like this one because it sort of follows that our universe is rather a construct that we live in. I find that sort of view interesting:

John O'Keefe (astronomer at NASA): "We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted, cherished group of creatures.. .. If the Universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in." Welcome to the Matrix.