Religion And Science

Science and religion are names for two modes in which human begins express themselves, the mode of knowing and the mode of worship and service. They are forms of personal activity. Neither of them has an independent existence of its own. Neither of them says anything. Neither of them does anything. Whatever science is supposed to say is really said by scientific person. And the same with what they are supposed to do. Science, what we told, has conferred enormous benefits on mankind. I must deny that, but I admit that enormous benefits have been conferred by scientific man or by those whom they have instructed. In the same way we have been told by the roman poet, Lucretius, for example that religion has inflected untold miseries on mankind. That too I must deny, but I admit with sorrow that some persons, acting in the name of religion, have been among the world's great malefactors. Nor is science irreproachable in this matter. Deeds are being done today in the name of science for which some of us would not like to be responsible. Only they are begin done not by science, but by men.