ience is the investigation of natural phenomena;
divine science is the discovery and realization of spiritual verities. The
world of humanity must acquire both. A bird has two wings; it cannot fly
with one. Material and spiritual science are the two wings of human uplift
and attainment. Both are necessary--one the natural, the other
supernatural; one material, the other divine. By the divine we mean the
discovery of the mysteries of God, the comprehension of spiritual
realities, the wisdom of God, inner significances of the heavenly
religions and foundation of the law.

("The Promulgation of Universal Peace", p. 138) [46]

From a Letter Written on Behalf of Shoghi Effendi

47: "Between the truth which comes from God through His Prophets, and
the..."

Between the truth which comes from God through His Prophets, and the
glimmerings, often misunderstood and misinterpreted, of truth which come
from the philosophers and thinkers, there is an immense difference. We
must never, under any circumstances, confuse the two.

Baha'u'llah has said that learning can be the veil between the soul of man
and the eternal truth; in other words, between man and the knowledge of
God. We have seen that many people who become very advanced in the study
of modern physical sciences are led to deny God, and to deny His Prophets.
That does not mean that God and the Prophets have not existed and do not
exist. It only means that knowledge has become a veil between their hearts
and the light of God.

(22 April 1954 to an individual believer) [47]

From Letters Written on Behalf of the Universal House of Justice

48: "Just as there is a fundamental difference between divine Revelation
itself..."

Just as there is a fundamental difference between divine Revelation itself
and the understanding that believers have of it, so also there is a basic
distinction between scientific fact and reasoning on the one hand and the
conclusions or theories of scientists on the other. There is, and can be,
no conflict between true religion and true science: true religion is
revealed by God, while it is through true science that the mind of man
"discovers the realities of things and becomes cognizant of their
peculiarities and effects, and of the qualities and properties of beings"
and "comprehendeth the abstract by the aid of the concrete". However,
whenever a statement is made through the lens of human understanding it is
thereby limited, for