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
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. — Alan Turing
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.
The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor. — Solanus Casey
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. — Max Planck
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. — Richard P. Feynman
Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day. — Reggie Watts
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism — Alvin Plantinga
The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion. — Joseph Henry
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. — Carl Sagan
God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists. — Derek Barton
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. — Carl Sagan
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. — Oscar Wilde
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith
Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. — Rosalind Franklin
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. — Victor J. Stenger
Top 10 Science And Religion Quotes
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind. — Rosalind Franklin
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion. — Samael Aun Weor
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. — Bertrand Russell
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. — Albert Einstein
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. — Richard P. Feynman
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence — Bertrand Russell
Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective. — Noah Webster
Science And Religion Image Quotes
I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it, in science, sympathetic vibrations.
Science Vs Religion Quotes
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. — Albert Einstein
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. — Albert Einstein
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. — Albert Einstein
Nothing happens by accident. God is preparing you for great things.
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
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. — Bertrand Russell
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. — Thomas Jefferson
Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience.
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. — Albert Einstein
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
Science And Spirituality Quotes
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace. — Wernher Von Braun
If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self. — K. Pattabhi Jois
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. — Albert Einstein
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. — T. S. Eliot
I got fascinated with all of this work in terms of spirituality, philosophy, behavioral science when I was around 18 years old. I've been doing this for 14 years, and I've been doing it online for three years. — Jay Shetty
"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality. — Ken Wilber
India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world. — Annie Besant
The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality. — Dalai Lama
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins
God And Science Quotes
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens. — Galileo Galilei
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God. — Louis Pasteur
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it. — Paracelsus
O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams. — William Shakespeare
Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word. — George F. R. Ellis
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. — Charles Darwin
They call me deranged. The hope is that they are right! It is of no greater or lesser import for yet another fool to wander this Earth. But if I am right and science is wrong, then may the Lord God have mercy on mankind! — Viktor Schauberger
A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics. — Fred Hoyle
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him. — John Flavel
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. — Catherine Fahringer
Science And Philosophy Quotes
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. — Lord Kelvin
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw
Read the greats in math, science, and philosophy. Ignore your contemporaries and news. Avoid tribal identification. Put truth above social approval. — Naval Ravikant
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. — Richard P. Feynman
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. — Gottlob Frege
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life. — Michael Faraday
My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite. — Akira Yoshizawa
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy. — Guglielmo Marconi
Philosophy Of Science Quotes
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. — Jonathan Swift
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. — Eduardo Galeano
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. — Rudolf Carnap
Technology is applied science. Science is the study of nature. Mathematics is the language of nature. Philosophy is the root of mathematics. All tightly interrelated. — Naval Ravikant
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject. — Gilles Deleuze
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it. — Thomas Kuhn
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. — Erik Adigard
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. — Steven Weinberg
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. — Rupert Sheldrake
Science And Society Quotes
The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. — Albert Einstein
Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. — William Graham Sumner
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it. — Jay Griffiths
We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity. — Nicolae Ceausescu
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. — Robert Trout
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Einstein
The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies. — J. William Fulbright
Art And Science Quotes
The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things. — Miyamoto Musashi
Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity. — Kano Jigoro
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. — William Osler
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. — Albert Einstein
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity — Mae Jemison
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. — Philipus A. Paracelsus
For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment. — Kano Jigoro
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Philosophy And Religion Quotes
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame. — Thomas Jefferson
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them? — Buddha
A cult is a religion with no political power. — Tom Wolfe
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me? — Annie Dillard
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship? — Martin Buber
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. — J. B. Priestley
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov
Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. — Marie Curie
As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy. — H. P. Lovecraft
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress. — Michael E. DeBakey
The history of ideas and science is a history of us broadening our vision of exactly how large physical reality is. — Naval Ravikant
ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. — Ambrose Bierce
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. — Charles Darwin
Science is not about cataloging a history of events that have occurred in the past and presuming they’re going to occur again in the future. — Naval Ravikant
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Barbara Tuchman
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. — Norman Spinrad
Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him. — Wernher Von Braun
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining...I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world. — Rosalind Franklin
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
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? — Carl Sagan
Much of the problems of modernity is taking religion literally and science metaphorically, rather than the reverse. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close. — Carl Sagan
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well. — Richard Dawkins
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. — Bertrand Russell
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of idealogy [sic], that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art etc. — Friedrich Engels
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again. — Penn Jillette
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son. — Horatius Bonar
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
Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today. — Michael Ruse
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. — Protagoras
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work. — James Randi
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan
It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls. — Max Planck
When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, You re welcome to your delusions, but don't say that they're supported by science. — Sayings
Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. — Albert Einstein
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