AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Cosmic Queries: Until the End of Time, with Brian Greene (Re-Release)
StarTalk Radio
The Role of Religion in the Spiritual Journey
2min Snip
00:00
Summary
Transcript
Episode notes
Dr. Tyson: There is a role for religion that some of our colleagues step on and dismiss out of hand entirely. No one can use any religious doctrine to calculate the electron's magnetic moment to nine decimal places, which we can do routinely with quantum field theory. But if you think about religion as something that doesn't illuminate the external world, but rather the internal world of conscious experience... Then there is arole for it. And you don't judge it by whether it can explain the external world. That's not what it's meant to do. You judge it byWhether it is a satisfying way of trying to understand your place in the universe.
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode