Consilience Quotes

“It would indeed be pleasing if consilience could be equated with higher states of consciousness and the forward progression of human civilization; however, I believe that conception would be dangerous. Instead, consilience forces us to recognize the fallibilities of the human mind, the fragility of society and the value derived from different domains of human existence, including spirituality and religious practices. While consilience can sensitize us to the complexities of human ideas, it also makes it easier to recognize statements that are unjustifiably dogmatic, wherever they come from.”
― Tom Beakbane, How to Understand Everything: Consilience: A New Way to See the World