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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. -- Pope John Paul II
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
The person who thinks there can be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or very ignorant of religion. -- Joseph Henry
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.
Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing. -- Starhawk
That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain. -- Susan Jacoby
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
I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is. -- Daniel Dennett
Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe. -- Henry Norris Russell
There can be no truce between science and religion. -- John B. S. Haldane
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. -- Dan Brown
No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be. -- Albert Einstein
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. -- Maria Mitchell
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. -- Oscar Wilde
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. -- Jack Horner
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. -- Gary Zukav
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
We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy. -- Joseph Campbell
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now. -- Arthur C. Clarke
We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are. -- Carl Sagan
From religion comes a man's purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hands are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped. -- William Henry Bragg
I think science and religion should be separate. -- Freeman Dyson
There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. -- Salvador Dali
Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense. -- Kenneth R. Miller
Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate. -- Freeman Dyson
Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled. -- Jeremy Griffith
'Are science and religion compatible?' It's like [asking]: 'Are science and plumbing compatible?' They're just two different things. -- Michael Shermer
I like the confusion you get between science and religion â?¦ thatâ??s where belief lies and art as well. -- Damien Hirst
The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them. -- Sidney Hook
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. -- Rodney Stark
God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists. -- Derek Barton
There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both. -- Russell M. Nelson
The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion. -- H. L. Mencken
It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people. -- Katharine Hayhoe
I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly. -- Richard G. Scott
Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably. -- Leonard Susskind
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion. -- Alan Lightman
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so. -- Sam Harris
Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men. -- Henry B. Eyring
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. -- H. L. Mencken
I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion. -- Aldous Huxley
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
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself. -- A. S. Byatt
I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God. -- Neil Turok
We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion. -- John B. S. Haldane
To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind. -- Victor Hugo
At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the nature of our universe in these two modes of thinking, I see many commonalities and crossovers between science and religion. It seems logical that in the long run the two will even converge. -- Charles Hard Townes
To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it. -- Terry Eagleton
Religion and science look at reality differently. -- Robert Lanza
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. -- Albert Einstein
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. -- Gregory Bateson
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. -- Michael Shermer
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact. -- Chuck Berry
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. -- Camille Paglia
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
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
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. -- Thomas Szasz
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
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. -- Frans de Waal
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core. -- Lisa Randall
Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology. -- Vinod Khosla
Religion has always persecuted science. -- Dan Brown
Science has taken away our religion. -- Bryan Appleyard
Fear is religion, courage is science. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Science is almost totally incompatible with religion. -- Peter Atkins
Science is the natural ally of religion. -- Theodore Parker
Science is the only religion of mankind. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Evolution is a religion; it is not science! -- Ken Ham
Science and art are the handmaids of religion. -- Francois Delsarte
Science and religion will meet and shake hands. -- Swami Vivekananda
There is no conflict between religion and science. -- Georges Lemaitre
The world is my country. Science my religion. -- Christiaan Huygens
Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.' -- Ezra Taft Benson
Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance. -- A.C. Grayling
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science -- Henri Bergson
Religion is just an interpretation; science is another one. -- M. T. Panchal
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. -- Henri Bergson
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Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science. -- Stephen Hawking
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. -- Alan Turing
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein
The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion -- Stephen Jay Gould
Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. -- Victor J. Stenger
Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative. -- Stephen Hawking
Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science. -- Frank J. Tipler
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps religion provides the justification for wars, but science provides the weapons. -- James Rozoff
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -- Jerry A. Coyne
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. -- P.D. Ouspensky
Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence. -- David Milne
Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind. -- Jack Kornfield
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. -- Richard P. Feynman
It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold. -- Isaac Asimov
Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion. -- David Brewster
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. -- Isaac Asimov
Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day. -- Reggie Watts
The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. -- Nancy Pearcey
Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
Politics And Religion Are Obsolete, The Time Has Come For Science And Spirituality -- Vinoba Bhave
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. -- Lyman Beecher
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. -- Stephen Hawking
Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion. -- Bill Nye
Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science). -- Paul Tillich
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. -- Lyman Beecher
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. -- Martin Luther
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion. -- Henry David Thoreau
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why. -- Pope John Paul II
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. -- Samuel Butler
If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism. -- Stephen Jay Gould
If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus? -- Richard Dawkins
The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. -- Michael J. Findley

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