How do you reconcile the role of science, which is reason, with the role of faith, which is religion? CAMPBELL: No, no, you have to distinguish between reason and thinking. MOYERS: Distinguish between reason and thinking? If I think, am I not reasoning things out? CAMPBELL: Yes, your reason is one kind of thinking. But thinking things out isn’t necessarily reason in this sense. Figuring out how you can break through a wall is not reason. The mouse who figures out, after it bumps its nose here, that perhaps he can get around there, is figuring something out the way we figure things out. But
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