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How important is spirituality in your life?

To many people the words ‘science’ and ‘spirituality’ are opposed.

In the core of these words their definitions are different. Science refers to the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. While, spirituality is concerned with the soul beyond what is tangible in an observable world.

You may think someone who is scientific is not spiritual or someone spiritual is not scientific. But this is not true. I mean Einstein believed in a ‘lawgiver’ who sets the law of the universe and in 2021 Pope Francis stated that there ‘cannot and must not be any opposition between faith and science’.

But could you go as far to say science is inherently linked to spirituality?

Science discovery is driven by the unknown, the beyond. What we don’t know about the observable world.

Doesn’t the ability to see and think about the complete unknown require spirituality?

A belief in more, to see what is not seen and have enough passion and drive to devote years studying it.

I guess it depends on how you define spirituality. For some spirituality is defined through religious practices, while others may feel their most spiritual while walking in the woods or swimming in the sea.

To me, spirituality is the belief in the beyond, to know there is more than meets the eye in this world and that drives my scientific endeavour every day.