Science And Religion Quotes - Page 9

• I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides His secrets from me only to allure me graciously on to the unfolding of them.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Prayer, Science

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• This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony between science and religion that each fresh conquest of science ever more luminously confirms, so that one may say that those who speak of the incompatibility of science and religion either make science say that which it never said or make religion say that which it never taught.

  Pope Pius XI

  Teaching, Science, Cities

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• The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Horse, Ignorance

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• There's a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I believe that the Earth is about 9,000 years old. I believe that it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says. And what I've come to learn is that it's the manufacturer's handbook, is what I call it. It ... teaches us how to run all our public policy.

  Paul Broun

  Running, Believe, Science

  "Paul Broun and What the Democrats Cannot Do" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated the Scopes trial within a much broader context than any scholar before him. Trying Biology also demonstrates how ideologues have used differing interpretations of the Scopes trial to advance their agendas. By situating the trial within this much broader framework, the author has significantly enlarged our understanding of the conversations between religion and science in twentieth-century America.

  Randall Balmer

  America, Understanding, Marketing

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• I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Lying, Confusion

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• A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Whales, People, Greed

  Kurt Vonnegut's address to the graduating class at Bennington College, 1970.

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• Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Conflict, Dangerous, Foe

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• Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Freedom, Criticism, Helping

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• India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Spiritual, Perfect

  Besant's lecture at the Grand Theatre, Calcutta, on January 15, 1906. "Hindu superiority". Book by Har Bilas Sarda, 1906.

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• Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and
  yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science
  and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and
  infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy,
  of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a
  zero – and an infinity.

  Charles Seife

  Zero, Powerful, Philosophy

  Charles Seife (2000). “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”, p.2, Penguin

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• Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Men, Two

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.

  Paul Levinson

  Space, Civilization, Perspective

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• I'm saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won't let anybody enter; they should open it immediately so that we can milk that cow in the name of humanity and thus find the truth.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Names, Leader

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• If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Church, World, Turns

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• Religion and science look at reality differently.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Looks

  "Religion vs. Science’s Answers to the Big Questions" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2012.

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• Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Belief, Term, Exclusive

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• I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Facts, Mystery

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• It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.

  Mary Hesse

  Christian, Biblical, Years

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• Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Men, Giving

  John Ruskin (1918). “Selections and Essays”, Scholarly Press

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• Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Meaning Of Life, Circumstances, Courses

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.105, The Floating Press

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• Science is the natural ally of religion.

  Theodore Parker

  Allies, Natural

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Sermons of Religion”, p.26

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• The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Teaching, Rome

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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• There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Disputes

  Disease, Life, and Man 'On Man'

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• True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis.

  Thomas Huxley

  Religious, Depth, Twins

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