Michael Shermer Quotes About Spirituality

Quotes about: Spirituality

• There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.

  Michael Shermer

  Mean, Doe, May

• Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

  Michael Shermer

  God, Two, Soul

  "Why people believe weird things". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.

• How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

  Michael Shermer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Doe

• If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.

  Michael Shermer

  Humility, Space, Faces

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