Niels Bohr (October 7, 1885–November 18, 1962) The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer, but that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an …
Niels Bohr On Language And Religion
Niels Bohr (October 7, 1885–November 18, 1962) We ought to remember that religion uses language in quite a different way from science. The language of religion is more closely related to the language of poetry than to the language of science. True, we are inclined to think that science deals with information about objective facts, …