Science Quotes by Karen Armstrong

10 Science quotes by Karen Armstrong

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Karen Armstrong brings her human‑centered perspective to the world of science, offering a concise set of insights that bridge belief and inquiry. While modest in number, each line invites you to consider how knowledge shapes culture and meaning.

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“The “principle of charity” and the “science of compassion” are both crucial to any attempt to understand discourse and ideas that initially…

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“There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.”

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“so Enlightenment philosophers developed a new form of theism, based entirely on reason and Newtonian science, which they called Deism.”

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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…

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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore…

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If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened.…

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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty…

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People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And…

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A science can diagnose a cancer and can even find a cure for it, but it can't, and a scientist will be…

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“This was the scientific age, and people wanted to believe that their traditions were in line with the new era, but this…

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If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

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A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone…

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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few…

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I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the…

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In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that…

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The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

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We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots…

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If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though…

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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt…

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“As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to “forget” old…

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Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our…

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“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without…

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