Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung on the dichotomy of science and religion

“What appealed to me in science were the concrete facts and their historical background, and in comparative religion the spiritual problems, into which philosophy also entered. In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.”

from Jung, C. G. (1989). Memories, dreams, reflections (A. Jaffé (ed.); R. Winston & C. Winston, trans.; p. 430). Vintage Books. (Original work published 1961).

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