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Religion Quotes by Steven Weinberg
- On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.
- If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has…
- I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply…
- [Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.
- I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
- Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more…
- Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest…
- It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as…
- For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
- The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and…
- The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
- All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically
- With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil…
- One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to…
- If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To…
- Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but…
More Religion Quotes
- 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