“Religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind”

“Religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind”

 

Prof. Dr. Werner Heisenberg
The theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) won the Nobel Prize in 1932, at the age of thirty one.  (Wikimedia Commons)

 

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world.  Although I am now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on.  Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of thought, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.” 

Werner Heisenberg 

 

 


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