science
5 stories on this theme.
The Two Wings of the Bird
At a great university in New York, 'Abdu'l-Bahá taught a hall full of students and professors why a person needs both science and religion — just as a bird needs both of its wings to fly.
Two Wings to Fly
When the head of a famous university invited 'Abdu'l-Bahá to speak to its smartest scientists and thinkers, He told them that science and religion are like two wings that lift us up together.
At Columbia University: A Talk on the Soul
Mahmúd's Diary records 'Abdu'l-Bahá's visit to Columbia University in New York on April 19, 1912. The Master spoke to the assembled faculty and students on the immortality of the soul and the inseparability of scientific investigation from spiritual enlightenment.
The Discourse at Clark: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Worcester
Mahmúd's Diary records that on May 22, 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahá visited Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, at the invitation of its president, G. Stanley Hall. He delivered an address to the faculty and students on the order of being and the unity of all truth.
Two Wings of the Bird of Knowledge: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Stanford
On October 7, 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahá addressed the assembled students and faculty of Leland Stanford Junior University in Palo Alto. He took up the great Bahá'í theme of the harmony of science and religion — and warned that the cultivation of one wing without the other could not carry the bird of human progress.