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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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. – Karen Armstrong

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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they dont want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. – Karen Armstrong

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When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too. – Karen Armstrong

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Man lives for science as well as bread. – William James

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The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. – Edward Teller

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Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics. – Steven Molaro and Daley Haggar, The Big Bang Theory, “The Killer Robot Instabili

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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. – John Charles Polanyi

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