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Objective Science and Subjective Spirituality are Complementary Igor Kononenko University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science Tr?a?ka 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Igor.Kononenko@fri.uni-lj.si  ABSTRACT: Both, science and spirituality are looking for the truth, but with completely different basic principles and methodologies. Science insists on objective descriptions of the world. This limits its scope to measurable, describable material world. Science deals with question “HOW universe operates” and develops various scientific theories that try to EXPLAIN. On the other hand, spirituality, stemming from various eastern and western traditions, deals with question: “WHY universe exists and what is the purpose of life”. It is necessarily subjective and relies on personal and intuitive sense. Its aim is the direct experience of reality in order to widen one’s consciousness. The spiritual seekers practice spiritual virtues like love, compassion, humility, faith, modesty, patience, courage, and sincerity. Mathematics defines strict boundaries for describable, rational (scientifically observable) world - corresponding to discrete world of natural numbers, while irrational world (subjectively observable) corresponds to the continuous world of real numbers. However, for the creative develop-ment in both material and spiritual world we need both: science and spirituality - they complement each other. In the words of Dalai Lama: mind and heart have to go together. 1 Introduction “Science without faith is lame, religion without science is blind.“ Albert Einstein This paper outlines the relation between science, which tends to be objective and therefore limited to the rational (logical) mind, and spirituality, which tends to be subjective and primarily uses intuitive mind (heart). Both science and spirituality search for the truth, but use completely different tools and interpret their results on completely