Quotes About Science

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

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

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

I do engineering, not religion.

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.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.