Quotes About Religion

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a lot longer.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.