What are your opinions on this statement? Do you agree with it or not? Either way, why?

Question

Physicists and Mystics have looked at the Universe and observed the same things, but the Mystics spoke in poetry, images and parable, and the Scientists spoke in numbers, equations and formulas.

--Taken from a website.

My point is, to better clarify, that science and religion can work together. Do you agree?

Answer 1

I think that that is a fair evaluation. Perspective is as much based on background and experience as it is the angle of sight.

Answer 2

What the bleep is wrong with you, Ms.Truthz?...Itz a magical mystery tour blinded by science........put them together and it truly is a strange elixir that can kill the highest mildew rating in pure fundamental worldview while the greatest physicist of our time say they are sorry they went down the rabbit hole so far that it seems the have come full circle back to some sort of mysticism....and opened a Pandora's box for their respect from the rest of the scientific purists. I only know these things because in another lifetime I was a quantum fieldmouse

a dyslexic drOw

Answer 3

The Universe is not merely a mathematical formula for working out the relation of certain mental abstractions, called numbers and principles to arrive in the end at a zero or a void

Neither is it merely a physical operation embodying certain equations of forces. It is the delight of a lover, a play of the supreme, the endless self-multiplication of a poet intoxicated with the rapture of his own power of Bliss

Physicist sees with mind
mystic sees with heart and soul
and a spirutal sees it with mind and soul....it is here that science and mysticism may meet

Answer 4

Absolutely not.
Scientists are for the most part, unbelievers.

Just because a scientists can not find what he is looking for, does this mean is does not exist?

people die everyday, because Doctors could not find the illness. Does this mean the illness didn't exist and they really didn't die?

Cemeteries are full of people that Doctors could not find the REAL Truth.

You keep your scientists. See if you live forever.

BTW: I'll give you a head start. Lets see if you even live to be 100. let alone forever.

Good Question.

Answer 5

Absolutely. Reminds me of a similar quote (I don't know the source).

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but rather marks the last place that Shamans and Scientists fought each other to a standstill.

Answer 6

well my opinion is that the mystics know more about what they see and they understand it more completely. becuase they can write about what they see and understand in poetry. they know exactly what they are talking about and can use many different words to describe that one thing. while physicists dont know whats goin on so they use complex formulas in which only they understand and few others makin it look like they know what they see.

Answer 7

I agree with it.
Before science was established people always looked at the night skies with wonder.
Through the poetry and images came the beginnings of scientific view.

Answer 8

yeah i think that is true. scientists really do look at numbers and the logical side of things. mystics look outside the box and what could be.

Answer 9

Yes.
The Bible has said things that many people (scientists) did not know of hundreds of years before they were known.
Science has never proved the Bible wrong.
The Bible always supports science.
God created everything there is including scientific laws.

Answer 10

What's your point? Different people will definately have a different ways of looking/describing the same things.