Associates Quote by John B. S. Haldane

“Science lacks something very important that religion provides: a moral code. Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is a cruel…

— A.G. Riddle

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

There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject…

— Sam Harris

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

— Bill Condon

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 central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building…

— Joshua Lederberg

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals…

— James Henry Breasted

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

— Brandon Flowers

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

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction…

— James Russell Lowell