Quotes on Science Religion

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

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

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

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.

The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

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.

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.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe