Quotes About Religion

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

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

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God".

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

The world is my country. Science my religion.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.