Quote by Karen Armstrong
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it. – Karen Armstrong

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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith. – Karen Armstrong

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Faith
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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 be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us. – Karen Armstrong

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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. – Karen Armstrong

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The science for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution. – Ray Comfort

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It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. – Alva Myrdal

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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of peoples experience. – John Charles Polanyi

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In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting. – Lord Kelvin

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We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past. – Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. – Thomas Berger

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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. – Charles Caleb Colton

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