“The grave error in a technically directed cultural
drive is that it sees its highest goal in the possibility of achieving
an alteration of nature. It hopes to set itself in the place of God, so
that it may force upon the divine will some petty conventions of its
dust-born mind.”
“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical
terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be
accounted for in terms of anything else.”
“We living beings all belong to one another, we are
all actually members or aspects of a single Being, which we may in
western terminology call God … .”
“Science is reticent too when it is a question of
the great Unity … of which we all somehow form part, to which we
belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God — with a
capital ‘G’.”
“Science is a creative game with rules, which are
designed by God himself: … but a game with reality, a game with
sharpened knives. If a man cuts a picture into 1000 pieces, you solve
the puzzle when you reassemble the pieces into a picture; in the
success or failure, both your intelligence and your creativity compete.
… The uncertainty is how many of the rules God himself has permanently
ordained, and how many apparently are caused by your own mental
inertia, while the solution generally becomes possible only through
freedom from its limitations. This is perhaps the most exciting thing
in the game.”
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Does God Exist?, JulAug10.