Quotes About Religion

So far, scientists have not uncovered any evidence that would hint that the workings of the Universe require the action of a divine being. On the other hand, scientists have uncovered no evidence that indicates that a divine being does not exist.

The Foundation has secrets. They have books, old books - so old that the language they are in is only known to a few of the top men. But the secrets are shrouded in ritual and religion, and may use them.

They are useful, but they are too strong—and too uncontrolled. They are Outlanders, educated apart from religion. On the one hand, we put knowledge into their hands, and on the other, we remove our strongest hold upon them.

For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works

Los seguidores del Viejo de la Montaña fueron llamados hashishin («fumadores de hachís»). Para los europeos, este nombre se convirtió en la voz «asesinos».

Habrá otras crisis en el porvenir, cuando el poder del dinero se haya convertido en una fuerza muerta como es ahora la religión. Que mis sucesores resuelvan esos nuevos problemas, como yo he resuelto el del presente.

Creo que Dios preferiría un ateo honesto y recto a un telepredicador que no hace más que repetir la palabra, Dios, Dios, Dios, y cuyos actos son horribles, horribles, horribles.

And the ship died! For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.

La religión es una de las grandes influencias civilizadoras de la historia

The creation tale of Genesis is very impressive, even in modern terms, if it is treated symbolically and allegorically. But again, the tendency for many people is to accept it literally and to fight ferociously against deviating from it by one iota.

rabino Loew de la Praga del siglo XVI. Se supone que formó un ser humano artificial —un robot— partiendo del barro, de la misma forma que Dios formó a Adán del barro. Un objeto de barro, por mucho que se parezca a un ser humano, es «una sustancia informe» (la palabra hebrea es «golem»)

Nunca, en toda mi vida, ni siquiera por un momento, me he sentido tentado por ninguna religión de ningún tipo. El hecho es que no siento ningún vacío espiritual. Tengo mi filosofía de la vida, que no incluye ningún aspecto sobrenatural y que encuentro totalmente satisfactoria. En resumen, soy un racionalista y sólo creo lo que me dice la razón.

En mi respuesta le decía: Avram, tú y yo somos judíos que vivimos en un país que es no judío en un noventa y cinco por ciento y nos las arreglamos bastante bien. Me pregunto cómo nos desenvolveríamos, Avram, si fuéramos gentiles y viviéramos en un país con un noventa y cinco por ciento de judíos ortodoxos. Memorias

There will be other crises in the time to come when money power has become as dead a force as religion is now. Let my successors solve those new problems, as I have solved the one of today.

The primary reason for the development of trade and traders was to introduce and spread this religion more quickly, and to insure that the introduction of new techniques and a new economy would be subject to our thorough and intimate control.

There is no Master but the Master and QT-1 is his prophet!

Huh?" Donovan became aware of twenty pairs of mechanical eyes fixed upon him and twenty stiff-timbred voices declaiming solemnly: "There is no Master but the Master and QT-1 is his prophet!

If you believe in God, then He exists.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginning was lust. The godly, as well as the human, principle is desire. Gravity, light, magnetism, thought may be aspects of the same universal longing. Suffering, emptiness, darkness are nothing more than interruptions of a cosmic orgasm that grows forever in intensity...

Misfortune draws people to religion and mysticism

What concrete steps can I take now? I asked the voice, and it replied: Go to a house of prayer and pray. Without faith? I countered, and the voice said: You have more faith than you know.

Wir Juden haben die Völker mit einem ewigen Gott belastet, und darum hassen sie uns.

But basically he remained the same: without belief in himself or in the human race; a fatalistic hedonist who lived in pre-suicidal gloom. Religions lied.