“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.