Atheism Quote by George Santayana

The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this reason I…

— John Dewey

Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core…

— Carl Sagan

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in…

— John Dewey

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human…

— Henry B. Eyring

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that…

— Radhanath Swami

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

— Allen W. Wood

“Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is touted as…

— Timothy Keller

“A defense [of religion] is needed because none has been forthcoming. The discussion has been ceded to men who regard religious belief with frivolous…

— David Berlinski

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

“Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?”

— Albert Einstein

“[...] Within the religious realm, the same can be said about that type of'apologetics' that claims to agree with the results of modern science-an…

— René Guénon