Science The New Religion Quotes

#1. A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.

Chogyam Trungpa

#2. 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

#3. A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Carl Sagan

#4. Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.

Charles Lyell

#6. There is nothing more stimulating to the senses than that of a female body freshly emerged from a steaming hot shower, bathed in oils and feminine scents ... well nothing except maybe a freshly opened package of chocolate double-stuffed Oreos.

Mark W. Boyer

#7. 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

#8. In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

B. Barmanbek

#9. These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the weight of their deceit. But as long as they survive we will have trouble winning any political battles.

Wayne Besen

#10. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

J. Reuben Clark

#11. All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

Thomas Paine

#12. I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Bobby Vinton

#13. 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

#14. If home is where the heart is, the we're all just fucked.

Fall Out Boy

#15. ...there is much more to matter than modern science currently would like to acknowledge. By developing insights about the observer, we can describe matter in a new way.

Ashish Dalela

#16. And men of science,' cries dixon, 'may be but the simple tools of others, with no more idea of what they are about, than a hammer knows of a house.

Thomas Pynchon

#17. Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping 'tea' isn't cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is.

Grace Gealey

#18. Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion.

Jacques Maritain

#19. Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome ... Note how science changed those beliefs when new data became available. Religions stick to the same ancient beliefs regardless of the data.

Victor J. Stenger

#20. 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

#21. More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

Lynn Townsend White Jr.

#22. 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

#23. Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

Victor J. Stenger

#24. I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

Ed Rollins

#25. Sometimes the hardest person in the world to talk to is your best friend, because it matters so much.

Steph Bowe

#26. Lisette set out browned chicken, warm butternut squash salad, blue potatoes, and blackberry bread with a crust of sugar that looked like ice crystals.

Sarah Addison Allen

#27. 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

#28. Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

Jonathan Haidt

#29. 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

#30. What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Alain De Botton

#31. The only thing money is good for, Marie, is buying time. The time to do the things you like.

Michelle Moran