Quotes About Science Vs Religion

#1. You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Albert Einstein

#2. The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

John William Draper

#3. The Duality of One is the Unity of two.

Joey Lawsin

#4. By believing in an imaginary invisible supernatural entity, humans may become good citizens. But this is not religion. This is merely an illusion of religion.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. Terrible things are done in the name of religion, without a doubt, but it was not religion but science that brought the world itself to the brink of destruction.

Chris Beckett

#6. 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

#7. The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#8. The boys learn the Quran by heart, rocking back and forth as they recite. They learn that there is no such thing as science or literature, that dinosaurs never existed and man never went to the moon.

Malala Yousafzai

#9. Science does not need religion. Religion does not need science. And the twain shall never meet

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#10. The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Joseph McCabe

#11. Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

James D. Watson

#12. There are more cells in your brain than there are brains in your entire body.

Richard Dawkins

#13. Science and Spirituality are two ends and you have to keep yourself at the middle. Science guys will call it, equilibrium.

Prerak Trivedi

#14. People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

Sam Harris

#15. You can make a story mean anything Meoraq. But that's the think with you religious people, isn't it? God is this glorious intangibility, so no proof becomes proof just by how you spin it.

R. Lee Smith

#16. I know about dance, like the creationist knows about science, and typically treat it with a similar contempt

Eilian J. Richmond

#17. The will to believe has given us our great saints. The will to doubt has given us our great scientists. The goal of the intelligent man is a character in which the will to believe of the saint and the will to doubt of the scientist meet and mingle.

Glenn Frank

#18. In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)

Robert Anton Wilson

#19. When the science speaks, religion must keep quiet! When the master speaks, hold your tongue, don't make a noise!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#21. My exploration of the biology of beliefs has taught me universal tolerance.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman

#23. Prayer is better than pills.

Carla H. Krueger

#24. People whom live in a world dominated by science and technology are losing belief in God and turning away from religion. Science eliminated the traditions that formerly made living an art form including the rain celebration of spring and traditional harvest festivals.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. I don't make any pretence of knowing about the existence of a Supreme Entity, neither do I make any attempt to create any friction among religions. If anything, I have spared myself no pains in my endeavor to smoothen the ongoing friction among all religions of the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.
[Diary entry, 1971]

Fritz Zwicky

#27. In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of "I don't give a damn what you think".

Sarah Vowell

#28. 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

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

George G. Asztalos

#30. Which is the more useful, the scientific world-view, with all its wonderful technical miracles, or the religious world-view, with its sense of purpose and belonging?

Chris Beckett

#31. science feeds our perpetual curiousity and claims that nothing exists until 'proven'. Science cannot prove the existence or non-existence of the human soul any more than a thermometer can prove the colour red or King Henry the eight could discourse on electronics.

Bryan Islip

#32. Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science!

Raheel Farooq

#33. There are more stolen bikes in my garage than there are stars in the galaxy.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#34. But this was the real world wasn't it? Miracles must happen in some parallel universe.

Clyde DeSouza

#35. Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

Ray Bradbury

#36. The soul is a mystery. Scientists and Theologians constantly butt heads on the soul's definitive and can't come to grips with its purpose and actual existence. Yet, the basic framework taught in a High School physics class helps with an explanation of the latter - the existence of the soul.

H.D. Rennerfeldt

#37. In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don't differ from science.

Virchand Gandhi

#38. Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Carla H. Krueger

#39. Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.

John Dewey

#40. Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.

Leonard Mlodinow

#41. Tactile receptors weren't needed to experience pain. Tone of voice transported those spores just as easily.

Clyde DeSouza

#42. There can never be a conflict between science and religion, once you understand the spiritual knack of the human brain circuits.

Abhijit Naskar

#43. The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.

Luther Burbank

#44. I am proud to say to you that, I am a scientist and I accept all religions to be biologically true and equal. My pursuit of understanding the human mind has taught me universal tolerance.

Abhijit Naskar

#45. Perhaps religion provides the justification for wars, but science provides the weapons.

James Rozoff

#46. Science is great for us. But for someone who see the human evaluation for more than one million years, science is a just a one instant and younger than a baby.

Muditha Champika

#47. Instruction is the Intelligence that programs all creation.

Joey Lawsin

#48. I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing
including myself.

S. Kelley Harrell

#49. Religion is to follow someone else's word as truth; whereas Spirituality is to discover your own truth through inquiry, experimentation and experience.

Yogi Kanna