Character Quote by Jerry A. Coyne Download Open image “In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.” — Jerry A. Coyne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Faith Faith Virtue Religion Religion faith Science Science Faith Vices Virtue
“Faith is the exact opposite of science and yet they peddle it as a virtue. Religion” — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science. — Loyd Auerbach Copy Share Image
“There is no conflict between science and faith if science means an objective investigation of the facts and faith means knowledge based on evidence.” — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself. — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Faith creates the virtues in which it believes. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Faith is is total acceptance of your soul to follow something no matter the risks involves around it. Faith is a is like water, without it you can't survive. — Andrews O Boamah Copy Share
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Many people require more than just evidence before they’ll accept evolution. To these folks, evolution raises such profound questions of purpose, morality, and meaning… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or plant into… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“There is an increasing (and disturbing) tendency of psychologists, biologists, and philosophers to Darwinize every aspect of human behavior, turning its study into a… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Science has only two things to contribute to religion: an analysis of the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological basis for believing things that aren't true,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
