Accord Quote by Jerry A. Coyne

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“My basic hypothesis is this: the people who run the media are Humanities graduates with little understanding of science, who wear their ignorance as…

— Ben Goldacre

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads…

— Lisa Randall

The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility...…

— Colin Archibald Russell

Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard -…

— Jacques Monod

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a…

— Nathan Deal

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it…

— Ricky Gervais

Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies written by…

— Martin Gardner

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or…

— David Hume

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

— Marcello Truzzi

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are…

— James Clerk Maxwell