Quotes About Religion

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.