Human mind Quote by dan brown

“For centuries, most of the devout had looked past vast amounts of scientific data and rational logic in defense of their faith.”

— Dan Brown

“The belief in a god is irrational, and once this leap of faith is made it only takes short steps to abandon the standards…

— Al Stefanelli

“...religious beliefs are simply beyond the scope of rational discourse.”

— Sam Harris

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a…

— Sam Harris

“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the…

— Sigmund Freud

“There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.”

— Karen Armstrong

“you can't reconcile religion with modern life, with all the knowledge we have, with science....”

— Raymond Khoury

“Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist manifests the…

— Edward Feser

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with…

— Werner Heisenberg

“When we look at the frailties of the human mind and the apparent disinterest by the multitude to do the very hard work of…

— Brian Goedken

“The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with…

— René Girard

“The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions…

— Anonymous