Accounts Quote by Francois Jacob

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

— Karen Armstrong

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

“Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder you are,…

— Joseph Campbell

Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be…

— Robert Graves

“Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and is willing…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth,…

— Kamal Haasan

It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on…

— Rudolf Bultmann

“Myths continue to dominate humankind, and science only makes these myths stronger. Instead of destroying the intersubjective reality, science will enable it to control…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

— Carl Jung

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by…

— Karl Popper

“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might…

— Joseph Campbell