Back in the day, our ancestors didn't get nearly as hung up as we do on the thorny question of where, or whether, science dovetails with spiritual practice. They just got on with it, sometimes with what we would now consider to be a reckless disregard for such niceties as actual evidence. Isaac Newton (though admittedly more sensitive to the question of evidence than most) is a prime example: physicist, mathematician, natural philosopher and theologian, but also – as most people are now aware – a man with a keen interest in alchemy. It's been suggested that he suffered from Asperger's syndrome as well: he was, to put it mildly, a challenging personality.
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