Contradictory Quote by David Brewster

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or…

— Sigmund Freud

“It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance betokens a lack of intellectual…

— Carl Sagan

“Religionists claim that their truth is absolute and rock solid, while scientists concede that their truth is tentative and relative.”

— C. W. Dalton

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no…

— Paul Dirac

Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are…

— Narayanananda Swami

The faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry…

— Christopher Hitchens

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

— Sam Harris

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

— Michael Shermer

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.

— Max Anders

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

— David Milne

The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from its attempt…

— Eugene Genovese