Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. 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.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.
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.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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