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Quotes About Religion

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.
~ Reggie Watts
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.
~ Richard Dawkins
Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.
~ Steven Weinberg
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.
~ Robert Andrews Millikan
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.
~ Albert Einstein
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
~ George Gamow
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
~ P.D. Ouspensky
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
~ Martin Luther
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.
~ Amit Ray
The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.
~ Walter Russell
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.
~ Richard Dawkins
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.
~ Albert Pike
Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).
~ Paul Tillich
Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.
~ James Redfield
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
~ Paul Davies
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
~ Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science
~ Henri Bergson
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
~ Albert Einstein
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
~ Stephen Hawking
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
~ Huston Smith