Facts Quote by Susan Jacoby

“Every day, without exception, the scientific community discovers, uncovers or realizes something new that serves to debunk one of the long-held beliefs of fundamental…

— Al Stefanelli

The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of their mindset…

— Mark Rylance

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires…

— Anonymous

“When we look at the frailties of the human mind and the apparent disinterest by the multitude to do the very hard work of…

— Brian Goedken

The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one hand, by…

— Thomas Huxley

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with…

— Werner Heisenberg

“Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework…

— Douglas Adams

“The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd theologies I…

— R. Alan Woods

“We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical reason”—pervading secular…

— David Watson

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

— Richard Dawkins

“There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense experience. A…

— Yann Martel

“All religions, I claim, involve counterintuitive beliefs in supernatural beings. Moreover, such beliefs are systematically counterintuitive in the same basic ways. As we shall…

— Scott Atran