Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
