Science And Religion Quotes

• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Mean, Science

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Records, Being True, Agnosticism

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls

  Max Planck

  Religious, Real, Thinking

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

  Galileo Galilei

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Atheism, Agnostic

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 25 Apr. 1929

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• Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wise, Science, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.23, Beacon Press

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• If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.40, St. Martin's Press

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• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Spiritual, Philosophy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• From religion comes a man's purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hands are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.

  William Henry Bragg

  Mean, Men, Hands

  Sir William Henry Bragg (1942). “The World of Sound: Six Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution”

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• Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

  Pope John Paul II

  Science, Errors, Catholic

  Letter to the Rev. George V. Coyne on June 01, 1988. "John Paul II on science and religion: reflections on the new view from Rome". Book edited by George Coyne, 1990.

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• It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

  Max Planck

  Religious, Soul, Religion

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• Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Humble, Men

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  God, Religious, Atheist

  "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

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• The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Doe, Spirituality

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Religion, Atheism

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood's End”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Faith, Atheist

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• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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• The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Wise, Art, Men

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• What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself

  Lewis Mumford

  Color, Goal, Personality

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• The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the existence of God.

  Charles Darwin

  Self, Religion, Atheism

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Religious, Religion, Atheism

  "Superstrings: A Theory of Everything?". Book edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, June 16, 1988.

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• If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Acceptance, Ideas

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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• True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  "Reading God's Mind: His Thoughts for Every Life Situation". Book by Dottie Eichhorn (p. 171), 2011.

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• Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.19, Open Road Media

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