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Religion Quotes by Carl Sagan
- At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.
- A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of…
- The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in…
- [S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.
- Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had…
- How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger…
- A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics…
- Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
- My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas…
- Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting…
- The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each…
- It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
- Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
- In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change…
- I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely…
- How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger…
- The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place…
- Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,…
- Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the…
- We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is,…
- Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion…
- You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe
- The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi