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I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason. -- Allen W. Wood
neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power -- John Money
With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is. -- Conor Oberst
Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position. -- Hugh Laurie
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous. -- Sam Harris
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. -- Christopher Hitchens
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. -- Stephen Hawking
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. -- Edward Abbey
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. -- James Anthony Froude
I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small. -- Malala Yousafzai
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
We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen. -- Elle Fanning
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. -- Galileo Galilei
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. -- William Bell
One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun. -- Nancy Roman
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason. -- Emily Greene Balch
One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases. -- Nicholas Stern
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages. -- Sigourney Weaver
Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its greatest discoveries and advances to scientists who themselves were deeply religious. -- Kenneth R. Miller
Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us. -- Karen Armstrong
As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets. -- Martin Feldstein
Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all. -- Mark Levin
Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past. -- Paul Feyerabend
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. -- H. L. Mencken
To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.] -- Wickliffe Rose
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive. -- James Anthony Froude
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. -- Heinz Pagels
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it -- Richard P. Feynman
Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance. -- Robert Kirshner
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. -- Heinz Pagels
Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt. -- Allen W. Wood
The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. -- Fernand Braudel
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. -- Richard Dawkins
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. -- Noam Chomsky
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated. -- James D. Watson
Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors. -- John Archibald Wheeler
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience -- Immanuel Kant
The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you. -- Dave Barry
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. -- William Bell
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well. -- Thomas Keating
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. -- Harun Yahya
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. -- Stephen Hawking
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Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought -- Karl Popper
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science. -- Marilynne Robinson
If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching. -- Phillip E. Johnson
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. -- Charles Caleb Colton

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