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Topic·Science and religion✕clear

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

Steven Weinberg

1999

★ 1.7

Philosophical literature

If ignorance of nature gave birth to the Gods, knowledge of nature is destined to destroy them.

Baron d'Holbach

1770

★ 1.9

In disputes about natural phenomena one must begin not with the authority of Scriptural passage but with sensory experience and necessary demonstrations. For the Holy Scripture and nature derive equally from the Godhead, the former as the dictation of the Holy Spirit and the latter as the most obedient executrix of God's orders.

Galileo Galilei

1615

★ 1.9

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

1957

★ 1.9

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

1940

★ 2.1

Scientific literature

There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps?

1894

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

1927

★ 3.5

From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it.

William Henry Bragg

1920

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born.

1961

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

The new philosophy proceeds from the world, the book of God.

Tommaso Campanella

1622

★ 3.6

Film · Adventure (film) · Drama (film) · Adventure · Drama

In a few hundred years, science has taken us farther in understanding the universe, than religion has in 10,000.

Life of Pi · 2012

★ 3.6

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

1702

★ 3.8

Economic literature

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

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 3.9

Religious literature · Scientific literature

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

God and the Astronomers · 1978

★ 5.0

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

1872

★ 5.2