Science
Compilations[edit]
Letters[edit]
Disciplines[edit]
Need for Bahá'ís to study[edit]
""Ye must therefore put forth a mighty effort, striving by night and day and resting not for a moment, to acquire an abundant share of all the sciences and arts, that the Divine Image, which shineth out from the Sun of Truth, may illumine the mirror of the hearts of men."
"The Baha'i youth must be taught how to teach the Cause of God. Their knowledge of the fundamentals of the Faith must be deepened and the standard of their education in science and literature enhanced.
- (Shoghi Effendi, 9 June 1925 to the Spiritual Assembly of the East- translated from the Persian, in Youth (compilation), no. 2237)
"The Baha'i Writings enjoin the acquisition of knowledge and the study of the arts and sciences.
- (Notes to the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, no. 110)
Bahá'ís are to respect people of learning[edit]
"Baha'is are admonished to respect people of learning and accomplishment."
- (Notes to the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, no. 110)
Current sciences (such as theologians use) are not to be used to weigh the Book of God[edit]
"Say: O leaders of religion! Weigh not the Book of God with such standards and sciences as are current amongst you, for the Book itself is the unerring Balance established amongst men. In this most perfect Balance whatsoever the peoples and kindreds of the earth possess must be weighed, while the measure of its weight should be tested according to its own standard, did ye but know it."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, par. 99)
Inadequacy of science toward unity[edit]
"Science cannot cure the illness of the body politic. Science cannot create amity and fellowship in human hearts. Neither can patriotism nor racial allegiance effect a remedy. It must be accomplished solely through the divine bounties and spiritual bestowals which have descended from God in this day for that purpose."
See also[edit]
- Harmony of science and religion
- Pseudoscience
- Modes of determining truth#Senses (Scientific method based on empiricism)
