Conflict Quote by Robert B. Laughlin

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

— Anonymous

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic

— Tryon Edwards

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to…

— Hal Hellman

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

— Paul Davies

An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.

— Greg Gutfeld

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that…

— Robert B. Laughlin

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If…

— Benjamin Franklin

“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

A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument…

— Richard Dawkins

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed…

— Samuel Johnson

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

— David Seabury

Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice

— Charles Mildmay