Defense Quote by David Berlinski

This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

“Religion exists to instill false security and blind faith,”

— Kelley Armstrong

“Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we…

— William James

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

— John Stuart Mill

“Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)”

— Susan Howatch

“For anyone with eyes to see, there can be no doubt that religious faith remains a perpetual source of human conflict. Religion persuades otherwise…

— Sam Harris

“The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious…

— Sam Harris

“Religions build theories about the world and then prevent them from being tested. Religions provide nice, appealing, and comforting ideas, and cloak them in…

— Anonymous

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

— Carl Jung

“ONE OF the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.…

— H.L. Mencken

“All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic…

— Jon Krakauer

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

— Henry Norris Russell