Quotes About Religion And Science

#1. Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

Bertrand Russell

#2. Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

Pearl S. Buck

#3. The real conflict over cosmology is not between religion and science-- it's between religion and materialism, between those who think that religious truth is both real and knowable and those who think that science explains everything.

Scott Klusendorf

#4. If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.

E. O. Wilson

#5. Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.

Santosh Kalwar

#6. However, just as the gap between religion and science is narrower than we commonly think, so the gap between religion and spirituality is much wider. Religion is a deal, whereas spirituality is a journey.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?

Robert Orben

#8. 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

#9. Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

Albert Einstein

#10. Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

Gene Wolfe

#11. Everybody is always touting the division between religion and science ... That division is based on a false premise. It simply doesn't exist. The first sciences developed from a desire to prove the existence of God. In that sense, science and religion have been hand in hand from the very beginning.

A.J. Kazinski

#12. In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Rupert Sheldrake

#13. Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#14. Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Samuel Butler

#15. There is no contradiction between true religion and science

Abdu'l- Baha

#16. To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

Richard Dawkins

#17. Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they venture into the deeply divisive issue of religion - especially when their results tend to support a highly unpopular, atheistic conclusion.

Victor J. Stenger

#18. It is ... idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature.

Bryan Appleyard

#19. Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

Michael Shermer

#20. Religion and science look at reality differently.

Robert Lanza

#21. Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

A.C. Grayling

#22. The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

John B. S. Haldane

#23. Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.

Bill Nye

#24. The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

Sam Harris

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Richard Dawkins

#28. Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary.

Henry Eyring

#29. In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

Robert Winston

#30. Religion and science could be considered "mutually tolerant," in that some scientists and believers tolerate each other's existence, and could even be seen as "capable

Jerry A. Coyne

#31. There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Max Planck

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.

Charles H. Townes

#35. Religion and science are engaged in a kind of war: a war for understanding, a war about whether we should have good reasons for what we accept as true.

Jerry A. Coyne

#36. Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?

Albert Einstein

#37. Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Gregory Bateson

#38. Modern scientific findings harmonize with revelation through the ages. No conflict exists between the gospel and any truth ... All true principles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no principle that we need to fear.

Spencer W. Kimball

#39. 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.

Peace Pilgrim

#40. The energy of subatomic particles transmits photons which interconnect in a wave like motion to similar particles. In other words, the immortal soul conveys energy which links in a wave like motion to related souls; thus Soul Mates.

Serena Jade

#41. Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
[Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism due to the Bible's support of geocentrism]

Abraham Calovius

#42. The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.

Max Gray

#43. Happiness lies not in the position, descent, or any property, but, that happiness lies in religion, science, manners, and achieve my goals.

Rifhi Siddiq

#44. Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.

Robert Andrews Millikan

#45. Science must always clash hard with religion in order to expose man's inherent insufficiency to reason and expose the Super Being's existence.

John Onyango Agumba

#46. Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

Kenneth R. Miller

#47. The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, which means the "Way of the Eternal," is the ancient scripture of Eckankar, the science of Soul Travel and total consciousness.

Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad Book One

Paul Twitchell

#48. When everything goes wrong, it's better to remember
someone who is not going to question you or blame you for what
you have done. Not even offer some free advice.
That's the best thing about God.

Sheeja Jose

#49. Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.

Amit Ray

#50. Albert Einstein said it best: Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.

Mark Batterson

#51. [Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#52. The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

H.L. Mencken

#53. You may be right. There may be no one greater than you or me. But that 'blind faith' kept me alive, and if you ask me, you're no different. If you've truly given up, why do you keep trying?

J. Kowallis

#54. The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

E. O. Wilson

#55. Often, superstition and injustice are imposed by the same ecclesiastical and secular authorities, working hand in glove. It is no surprise that political revolutions, scepticism about religion, and the rise of science might go together,

Carl Sagan

#56. In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

Immanuel Kant

#57. I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.
[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

John T. Scopes

#58. I think ... that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals ...

Corliss Lamont

#59. Men wanted certainties, not more causes for doubt, and since the discoveries of science perplexed them with strange theories about the earth on which they walked and the bodies they inhabited, they turned with all the more zeal to the firm assurances of religion. Never

C. V. Wedgewood

#60. 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

#61. The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.

Samael Aun Weor

#62. Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny.

Abhijit Naskar

#63. As I read the Qur'an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

Jeffrey Lang

#64. Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

Santosh Kalwar

#65. Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Muhammad Iqbal

#66. Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Ray Bradbury

#67. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.

Tony Rothman

#68. The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science.

Frank Olvera

#69. I am the bridge that connects these two ever- separated banks of human understanding.

Abhijit Naskar

#70. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Isaac Newton

#71. Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a fear of the supernatural. It bars people from laughing and never allows people to exercise their choice.

Taslima Nasrin

#72. When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.

Lisa Randall

#73. 'Are science and religion compatible?' It's like [asking]: 'Are science and plumbing compatible?' They're just two different things.

Michael Shermer

#74. This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis, by pornography, by sexology, by science and medicine and the social sciences.

Sheila Jeffreys

#75. I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

Ben Marcus

#76. Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#77. Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.

Abhijit Naskar

#78. True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis.

Thomas Huxley

#79. There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.

African Spir

#80. maybe everything happens in a monkey that came to make the rules in heaven

George G. Asztalos

#81. Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.

John Gray

#82. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.

Abhijit Naskar

#83. 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

#84. The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#85. Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

PZ Myers

#86. I like the confusion you get between science and religion ... that's where belief lies and art as well.

Damien Hirst

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#90. Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

Reggie Watts

#91. 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

#92. What science shows us about the evolution of our universe and ourselves is as awe-inspiring as the accounts in Genesis or the Kabbalah.

Daniel C. Matt

#93. 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.

#94. Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#95. We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.

William R. Brody

#96. ... Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

Dan Brown

#97. There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

Rudolf Virchow

#98. It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#99. What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself

Lewis Mumford

#100. Religion [Dharma] means to do good for others and non-religion [Adharma] means to hurt others. This is referred to as religion-nonreligion [Dharma-Adharma]. Science is to transcend religion and non-religion.

Dada Bhagwan