Branches Quote by Fritjof Capra

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

— Fritjof Capra

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

— Albert Hofmann

“Science is limited only to the physical (physiology) and mental (psychology) planes, but mysticism even examine the spiritual plane. At the same time, science…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which…

— Aldous Huxley

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

— D. H. Lawrence

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore…

— Anonymous

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

— Quintilian

Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition…

— Sam Harris

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

— Rudolf Virchow

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself…

— Keith Carter

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

— Albert Schweitzer

Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has,…

— Evelyn Underhill