Quotes About Science

We have fossils... We win!

Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Evolution is faith, a religion.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.