Science Religion Quotes

There are innumerable definitions of God, because His manifestations are innumerable. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. ~ Charles Lindbergh

Only the sixth sense can expose what the other five have hidden. ~ Matthew A. Petti

Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore the mystery of your body, mind and soul. You will find the truth. ~ Amit Ray

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality. ~ John Archibald Wheeler

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls. ~ Max Planck

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science. ~ Albert Einstein

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

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand. ~ Emile Durkheim

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. ~ Konrad Lorenz

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds ... is not productive. ~ E. O. Wilson

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. ~ Paulo Coelho

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. ~ Douglas Adams

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious. ~ Chen-Ning Yang

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power. ~ Livy

If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself. ~ David Hilbert

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion. ~ Steven Weinberg

If we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now, and the heaven predicted from the beginning of the world, and still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose, and the air, and the sun. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy. ~ William Beveridge

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion. ~ Gary Ross

Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are. ~ Sukhraj S. Dhillon

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously. ~ Dan Shechtman

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. ~ Henri Bergson

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. ~ Richard Dawkins

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.' ~ Ezra Taft Benson

I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting. ~ Vinod Khosla

When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart. ~ Stephen Fry

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God. ~ Seth Shostak

There can be no truce between science and religion. ~ John B. S. Haldane

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts. ~ Max Planck

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Mysteries are the evidence to errors in our religious and historical precepts. ~ Matthew A. Petti

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion. ~ Neil Postman

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

For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ... , God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles. ~ Brian Ellis

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. ~ Christopher Hitchens

We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. ~ Swami Sivananda

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. ~ Irvine Welsh

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. ~ Jack Horner

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. ~ Victor J. Stenger

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science. ~ Eugenie Scott

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. ~ Albert Einstein

Nature teaches us everything,
Science, Religion and Scriptures
All are part of you and
All are from you
We all belong to you, on this Earth day ! ~ Santosh Kalwar

What happened at the end of our last story is something called misdirection. It's what happens when you are led to believe that something is true, but in reality it's not true at all. Misdirection happens a lot in real life- especially in politics, history, education, medicine, marketing, science, religion, and the Oprah Winfrey Network. ~ Dav Pilkey

Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation of religion and so deeply imbued with the sense of their religious duties, that the sanctity of an oath had more power to control their lives than the fear of punishment for lawbreaking. ~ Livy

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. ~ Richard Feynman

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. ~ Gary Zukav

Each component of this trinity of human endeavor - science, religion, and art - lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an embrace of the mysterious. Where mystery is absent, there can be no wonder. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this. ~ Bruno Latour

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'. ~ Adrian Desmond

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover. ~ Lisa Randall

How is it that the strange idea of making the law produce what it does not contain - prosperity, in a positive sense, wealth, science, religion - should ever have gained ground in the political world? ~ Frederic Bastiat

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology. ~ Vinod Khosla

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated. ~ Howard Nemerov

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church. ~ Gregory Benford

Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator. ~ William Buckland

The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity. ~ John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn

Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein. ~ Paul Di Filippo

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good. ~ Fyodor Stepun

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. ~ Mark Twain

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact. ~ Chuck Berry

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it. ~ Alan Lightman

I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's not a matter of using it to explain things that scientists are mystified by. ~ Martin Rees

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism. ~ Martin Rees

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. ~ Paul Davies

I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for religion, and the subject has always fascinated me, beyond almost all others (with a few exceptions, like evolution and paleontology). ~ Stephen Jay Gould

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ~ Richard Adams

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. ~ John Locke

Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations. ~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. ~ Carl Sagan

The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to. ~ Wyndham Lewis

Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death ~ Carl Jung

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science ... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together. ~ Preston Sturges

Believing is not the same as knowing. Believing is second-hand knowledge, whereas knowing is first-hand experience. When your action comes from a level of belief, there is fear, doubt and restlessness behind such action. When your action comes from a level of knowing, there is conviction, certainty and calm behind such action. ~ Yogi Kanna

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind. ~ Emily Dickinson

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art. ~ P.D. Ouspensky

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. ~ Rupert Sheldrake

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe. ~ Henry Norris Russell

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. ~ Michael Shermer

Asimov's "The Relativity of Wrong":3 When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. ~ Adolf Hitler

I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science. ~ Bill Nye

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying. ~ Stephen Hawking

The world will not change by our position in the Universe. Actions change when beliefs change; collective actions and beliefs change the world. ~ Matthew A. Petti

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases. ~ J. Michael Straczynski

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. ~ Isaac Newton

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art . ~ George Santayana

Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that it must abandon or modify what it once believed. Sometimes it ends by accepting what it has previously scorned. ~ Loren Eiseley

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live. ~ Ruth Hubbard

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. ~ Simon Greenleaf

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. ~ Stephen Hawking

Often there are two different reasons given for this natural desire to simplify. First is that we as humans have a very limited imagination and whichever medium we use to understand the world - be it science, religion, philosophy, or art -we will end up exploting the same limited set of ideas available to us. ~ Vlatko Vedral