Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.
Interpretation
Religion should be open to scrutiny and criticism to avoid potential harm.
Lawrence M. Krauss argues that shielding religion from criticism prevents healthy discourse and can lead to negative consequences. By challenging religious beliefs, society can address and rectify harmful ideologies and practices, fostering a more informed and rational approach to spirituality and ethics.
In practice
In a debate about the role of religion in public policy, this quote can highlight the necessity for critical examination.
The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.
Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.
A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction
Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.
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