Comfort Quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

— Carl Sagan

Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

— PZ Myers

“Science must always clash hard with religion in order to expose man's inherent insufficiency to reason and expose the Super Being's existence.”

— John Onyango Agumba

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind…

— Brian Greene

Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort,…

— Heinz Pagels

“Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against skepticism and against dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition...…

— Max Planck

“Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)”

— Susan Howatch

“Science has never succeeded by burying the manifestations of unintended consequences. It has succeeded when we recognize them and deal with those issues. That’s…

— Judith D. Schwartz

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 Can religion be superseded by science?”

— Albert Einstein

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its…

— Carl Sagan

Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science…

— Robert Green Ingersoll