Alternatives Quote by Victor J. Stenger

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

— PZ Myers

It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of…

— James D. Watson

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

— Stephen Hawking

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion…

— Richard Dawkins

The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility...…

— Colin Archibald Russell

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human…

— Henry B. Eyring

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

— Paul D. Boyer

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the…

— Bill Gates

“Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new…

— Luther Burbank

“Religions build theories about the world and then prevent them from being tested. Religions provide nice, appealing, and comforting ideas, and cloak them in…

— Anonymous

It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts…

— Bryan Appleyard

The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that…

— David Deutsch