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Show Alfred Stiernotte comparative goodness or badness of the one who suffers apt illustration of the scientific search for truth combined with a Christian attitude of mercy. If the scientist probes more deeply into the social scene an and done, of the in changes indeed Einstein and many physicists have dangers of uncontrolled atomic energy, and that us, as warns our social structure or in our international relations may be involved, then it seems to me, he is combining the scientific spirit with the Hebrew concern for Similarly, the economist, the social scientist, the sociologist, the anthropologist use their scientific spiritual attitude when they search for objective truth in these areas justice. of life. of science has found the patterns of economic structure, patterns of culture, patterns of racial relations, it is also his duty as a citizen to give his assistance to But once the man whatever forces and signify wider So, justice. again, once most to us is not laboratory fire movements within these patterns do better human relations, greater brotherhood, and we see appeal who is locked up in his abstract research, but the man who can merely on some that the scientist who will the man imagination by making clear the practical bearing of his research for humanity. We are all members of one body, and the scientist who relates his search for truth to human welfare achieves a heightened spiritual dimension so by doing. Again, if we think once more of the mystical quality, that our to us can also be enriched by relating it to the scientific picture of the universe in which we live, move and have our being. Due to the advance of science, which has spiritual value revealed to us the immense size of the universe far-flung galaxies containing light to us - with the sending their possible for us to billions of stars, for millions of years - it is 293 |
