'Are science and religion compatible?' It's like [asking]: 'Are science and plumbing compatible?' They're just two different things. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings? — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Science and religion stand watch over different aspects of all our major flashpoints. May they do so in peace and reinforcement--and not… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
“More Important Than Truth (The Sonnet) In the beginning even I was, Bedazzled by the concept of truth. It took me some… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spirituality. On… — Masao Abe Copy Share Image
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everybody is always touting the division between religion and science… That division is based on a false premise. It simply doesn't exist.… — A.J. Kazinski Copy Share Image
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“They don’t understand that religion and science are there to serve different purposes. We need science to understand how everything on this… — Raymond Khoury Copy Share Image
“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Religious creeds are a great obstacle to any full sympathy between the outlook of the scientist and the outlook which religion is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Science could potentially do a better job explaining the meaning of life if scientists devise experiments that can weed out the best… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Like many other world religions, nationalism requires its adapts to adhere to a strict dogma. They must also provide a sacrifice of… — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
“Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image