Knowledge Quote by Robert G. Ingersoll

“The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is known,—about another…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“almost all the wall posts, which arrived nearly as fast as I could read them, were written by people I’d never met and whom…

— John Green

“The fact that he was dead hadn’t worried her. After all, she had grown up surrounded by the dead. She knew it was not…

— Gemma Holden

“I was afraid of the dead, as was everyone I knew. We were afraid of the dead because we never could tell when they…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the…

— Michael Ruse

“In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did with those…

— Ivan Illich

“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When the nights…

— Shannon L. Alder

In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me that we…

— Eugen Drewermann

“It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Of course the theologians fought the facts found by the geologists, the scientists, and sought to sustain the sacred Scriptures. They mistook the bones…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

— John Burroughs

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as…

— Bertrand Russell

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that…

— Karen Armstrong

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding…

— Jerry A. Coyne