Explanation Quote by Carl Sagan

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

— Daniel Kahneman

“We humans have a natural tendency to search for solutions and irrational explanations as soon as we are confronted with fear. Since the dawn…

— Manuel Lempereur

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

— Karl Marx

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

— B. B. King

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it…

— Charles Darwin

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

— Joseph Dunninger

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

— George C. Williams

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

— John Dryden

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a…

— Robert Anton Wilson

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings…

— Carl Jung

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

— Abraham Joshua Heschel