Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task…

All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out…

— Frank Herbert

Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

— Elliott Sober

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people.…

— Booker T. Washington

In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute…

— Eugen Drewermann

“Thank you, Carol Lynn Pearson, for reminding us that the task of any religion is to teach us whom we're required to love, not…

— Carol Lynn Pearson

The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't…

— M. J. Ryan

“How would you judge the lawfulness or unlawfulness of "pleasure?" Use this rule: Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures…

— Susanna Wesley

Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever,…

— Charles Spurgeon

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience,…

— Robert Southey

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in…

— Susanna Wesley

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any…

— Max Planck

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you…

— Samuel Johnson

Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing: if it be…

— Francis Quarles