Science Quote by Christopher Hitchens

The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It…

— Thomas Paine

“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the…

— Albert Einstein

“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which…

— William James

“But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the…

— Albert Einstein

“Proof then, has retreated in the face of belief. Science, once heralded as the arbiter of truth, has had its facade of objectivity punctured.…

— Phil Hine

Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and…

— John B. S. Haldane

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its…

— Carl Sagan

the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority…

— Albert Einstein

“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

“I come from a religious tradition where we make a blessing over great scientists regardless of their views on religion.”

— Jonathan Sacks

“The efforts of apologists to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow sound or…

— Richard Dawkins