We ought to remember that religion uses language in quite a different way
from science. The language of religion is more closely related to the
language of poetry than to the language of science. True, we are inclined to
think that science deals with information about objective facts, and poetry
with subjective feelings. Hence we conclude that if religion does indeed
deal with objective truths, it ought to adopt the same criteria of truth as
science. But I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a
subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages
have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are
no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not
mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an
objective and a subjective side won't get us very far.
-- Niels Bohr.
in: Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
(1972) by Werner Heisenberg.