Science And Religion Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  58 Copy quote

• Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

  Michael Shermer

  Reality, Long, Turns

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.125, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Knowledge, Mean, School

  7 Copy quote

• We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Jesus, Light, Heaven

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

  Samuel Butler

  Hate, Science, Should

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

  Sam Harris

  Differences, Passionate, Argument

  "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, en.wikiquote.org. January 02, 2006.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you as “militant.” The reason is clear: religion occupies a privileged place in our society. Attacking it is off-limits, although going after other supernatural or paranormal beliefs like ESP, homeopathy, or political worldviews is not. Accommodationism is not meant to defend science, which can stand on its own, but to show that in some way religion can still make credible claims about the world.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Political, Enemy, Esp

  7 Copy quote

• Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

  Chuck Berry

  Facts, Ifs

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

  James Redfield

  Life, Spiritual, Philosophy

  23 Copy quote

• I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Attitude, Believe, Order

  6 Copy quote

• Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Religious, Inseparable

  8 Copy quote

• Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

  Freeman Dyson

  Together, My Friends

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

  Gene Wolfe

  Matter

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.288, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spirituality. On the other hand, religion without science is powerless because it lacks an effective means through which to actualize the ultimate reality. Science and religion must work together harmoniously.

  Masao Abe

  Mean, Loss, Reality

  Masao Abe (2003). “Zen and the Modern World: A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.55, University of Hawaii Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Common Sense, Suggestions, Faces

  "Science And Religion: Incompatible?" by Kenneth R. Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Philosophy, Believe

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.230, Princeton University Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mistake, Liars, Lying

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ignorance, Two, Scripture

  28 Copy quote

• Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do. I share with most religious people a sense of mystery and wonder at the universe and I want to participate in religious ritual and practices because they're something that all humans can share.

  Martin Rees

  Religious, Practice, People

  16 Copy quote

• The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

  Adolf Hitler

  Dogma, Christianity, Worn

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Spiritual, People, Perception

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Zero, Maintenance

  "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2006.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Ignorance, Men, Two

  26 Copy quote

• The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is not only historically inaccurate, but actually a caricature so grotesque that what needs to be explained is how it could possibly have achieved any degree of respectability.

  Colin Archibald Russell

  Atheism, Degrees, Needs

  5 Copy quote

• There is no contradiction between true religion and science

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Contradiction, True Religion

  4 Copy quote