Quakerism and Science

From a vantage point of years I can reflect upon an inwardly satisfying life in which science and Quakerism reinforced one another as sources of inspiration and outlets for service. From my experience, I affirm that science and Quakerism not only have more in common than does science with other avenues of religious expression, but that wider recognition of that fact could encourage both inner and outer peace. As an ongoing process of revelations, science seeks closer and closer approximations of the actual state of nature. Quakerism, in turn, has been an historic effort through continuing revelation to identify and erase obscuring impediments to the dynamic, experiential, life-shaping faith Jesus preached and exemplified. The process is grounded in worship, especially the spiritually uplifting experience of the truly "gathered" meeting for worship.