Accounts Quote by Herbert Spencer

“The idea that being scientific simply means being irreligious is a particularly naive one. It has caused a lot of confusion and will get…

— Mary Midgley

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones…

— H. L. Mencken

Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“And so come the cults, claiming to meet the needs that science has thus far failed to meet--and offering the prospective inductee a place…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet…

— J. Michael Bishop

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that…

— Robert Winston

The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an…

— Pope John Paul II

A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It…

— Carl Sagan

We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.

— Jon Jones

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

— Barrington Moore Jr

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

— Max Planck

The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has…

— Sigmund Freud