Quotes About Knowledge

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

I'm not of the religion but I'm educated enough to understand there is a misconception about it globally.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

Who knows most, doubts most.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind