The Bahá'í Faith… enjoins upon its followers the primary
duty of an unfettered search after truth, condemns all manner of prejudice and
superstition, declares the purpose of religion to be the promotion of amity and
concord, proclaims its essential harmony with science, and recognizes it as the
foremost agency for the pacification and the orderly progress of human society.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 14 July 1947, by Shoghi Effendi to the United Nations
Special Commission on Palestine; Compilation: ‘Science and Technology’,
compiled by Research Department of the Universal House of Justice and attached
to a Memorandum from the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice,
dated 13-August 1997)
