Life Quote by Kevin Aho

“A religious system is to be judged by its idea of God, for it is upon this that its whole structure rests.”

— John Daniel

“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came…

— Nikola Tesla

That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science…

— Susan Jacoby

“One of the basic tenets of all metaphysical systems of thought is that we create our own reality in accord with our beliefs.”

— Mary Greer

“In the course of life, all such systems (i.e., the different evolutionary ridges) are somewhat functionally interdependent, as are components within each system (i.e.,…

— Scott Atran

The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In…

— Philip Jose Farmer

“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Therefore, the spiritual development has to fix all the time the currently existing physical body of man as a certain matrix.”

— Grigori Grabovoi

“I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism…

— Michael Cox

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily.…

— Tana French

“In a profoundly meaningless culture, it can come as an even more profound shock that not only does a system to attain higher consciousness…

— Magick.Me

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of…

— Suzanne La Follette