Top 58 Atheism Religion Science Quotes
#1. We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.
Aleister Crowley
#2. It is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.
Massimo Pigliucci
#3. Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.
J.S.B. Morse
#4. God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.
Derek Barton
#5. Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.
Robert Andrews Millikan
#6. I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#7. The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics.
Victor J. Stenger
#8. There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.
Bill O'Reilly
#9. Science is one , gods are many
science allows change and accept new tested things but religion not
science laws are same all over earth but religions have different
Er.teji
#10. 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
#11. What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.
Arthur Compton
#13. Even those, who some time ago believed all the stories about God, that is who believed that divine power exists, have now come to be so ashamed of their own belief, hiding their ignorance, they are now struggling hard to prove those stories as scientifically true.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#14. Before we understood science, it was natural to believe that God created the universe, but now science offers a more convincing explanation." "What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is we would know everything that God would know if there was a God, but there isn't. I'm an atheist.
Stephen Hawking
#15. Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.
Nick Matzke
#16. Religion was (is) always steps ahead of science; because religion lies and science can't.
M.F. Moonzajer
#17. This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone avails, humanistic science, the ideal of the free and beautiful human being.
Thomas Mann
#18. Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.
George Coyne
#19. The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.
Mark Thomas
#20. Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#21. The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#22. Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation..
Peter Atkins
#23. Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.
Criss Jami
#24. Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.
Bertrand Russell
#25. Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.
Richard Dawkins
#26. Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.
P.Z. Myers
#27. There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#28. There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
Richard Dawkins
#30. All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?
Robert L. Park
#32. We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.
Christopher Hitchens
#33. A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
#34. It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.
Paul Davies
#35. Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.
Eric Chaisson
#36. I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it it really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one.
G.K. Chesterton
#37. I don't want to believe. I want to know.
Carl Sagan
#38. The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
Robert Bork
#39. [Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.
Stephen Jay Gould
#40. I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments and mocking this religious stuff. Frankly, it stayed with me to this day. In fact, don't get me going. I'm almost as bad as Richard Dawkins on this issue.
Richard E. Leakey
#41. And fragile is thy tenure of this world
Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.
("To Science")
George Sterling
#42. Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.
Victor J. Stenger
#43. What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.
Luther Burbank
#44. Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere ... they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.
Victor J. Stenger
#45. In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
A.A. Lewis
#46. People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.
Sam Harris
#48. One who does not believe in the self is an atheist. If you believe in yourself, then you are the most religious person on earth.
Abhijit Naskar
#49. To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.
Richard Dawkins
#50. When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.
Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
#52. To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#53. 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
#54. The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.
Ricky Gervais
#55. Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
Cesar Nascimento
#56. But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork'. Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God's creation.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
#57. From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.
Swami Vivekananda
#58. I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.
Lisa Tuttle
