Quotes About Religion

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Religion has always persecuted science.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

The point of any religion should be this: how to open your heart to love.

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that's where belief lies and art as well.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

Men study science as god not the God of science.