"The first step down from Phaedrus' statement that 'Quality is the Buddha' is the statement that such a statement, if true, provides a rational basis for a unification of three areas of human experience which are now disunified. These three areas are Religion, Art and Science....
"The relationship of Quality to the area of Art has been shown rather exhaustively...Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man....
"In the area of Religion, the rational relationship of Quality to the Godhead needs to be more thoroughly established....For the time being one can meditate on the fact that the old English roots for the Buddha and Quality, God and good, appear to be identical.
"It is in the area of Science that I want to focus attention in the immediate future, for this is the area that most badly needs the relationship established. The dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are 'value free,' that is, 'quality free,' has got to go. It's that 'value freedom' that underlies the death-force effectto which attention was brought early in the Chatauqua."
Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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