Quotes on Science And Philosophy

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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.

For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.