Science And Religion Quotes

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
― Isaac Newton

“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...
This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.”
― Isaac Newton, The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise.

I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life.”
― Nikola Tesla, Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

“How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?
Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?”
― Isaac Newton, Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730

“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing.”
― Isaac Newton, The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

“… Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book… and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time, that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would [produce] the same result.”
― Ricky Gervais

“Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.”
― Amit Ray

“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it—to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do, is to abandon a just cause to its enemies, cravenly and without excuse.”
― H.L. Mencken, American Mercury

“…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority of Aristotelian science. The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a revival of Hellenistic science but its final defeat.”
― David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

“You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men’s eyes, because they know – or think they know – some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young – like the fine ladies at the opera.”
― Bram Stoker

“The purpose of science is not down-scaling everything to physical level and measure, but to penetrate deeper into the realm beyond the sensory perceptions and bring more in-depth knowledge and wisdom to the world.”
― Amit Ray, 72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation

“The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science.”
― Frank 'The Christian Noob' Olvera, Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown

“The gods gave you a brain, boy,' he'd say. 'If you want to honor them, use it.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Promise

“But we have no [Marian] apparitions cautioning the Church against, say, accepting the delusion of an Earth-centered Universe, or warning it of complicity with Nazi Germany — two matters of considerable moral as well as historical import....

Not a single saint criticized the practice of torturing and burning “witches” and heretics. Why not? Were they unaware of what was going on? Could they not grasp its evil? And why is [the Virgin] Mary always admonishing the poor peasant to inform the authorities? Why doesn’t she admonish the authorities herself? Or the King? Or the Pope?”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.”
― Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

“Artificial intelligence does not trust anyone other than the decisions of its own neurons”
― Haile M.A. Rucleif

“Science is the study of God's work.”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“A lesson of manifestation:
1. Think about it.
2. Talk about it.
3. Go out and do it.

A. That is the exact science behind manifestation.
B. Manifestation does not occur without all three steps.
C. There is nothing mystical about manifestation.
D. If it occurs without the third step, you did not manifest it.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“More than being the spark of reason,
Be the reason for someone's spark.
Better than bearing the light of faith,
Instill faith in someone's light.

Intellect don't impress me much,
Devoutness of doctrine repulses me.
Have you ever made a stranger smile,
Ever left your seat to the elderly!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“A storm surge is a local rise in sea level near the shore that is caused by strong winds from a storm, such as a hurricane.”
― Hold Science and Technolgoy

“I had reached a number of stop signs in trying to understand the universe using rational logic and science alone. My questions were not being answered, and I could drive no further along the path I was now determined to follow. I had to leave that trusty old car behind and proceed on foot through what seemed to me at the time to be an impenetrable jungle of irrational ideas, superstitions, delusions, and wishful thinking. I stood there under that stop sign for a long time, not knowing what to do, and I would still be there if God had not shown me the way. But He did.”
― Sy Garte, The Works of His Hands: A Scientist’s Journey from Atheism to Faith

“All in The Mind (The Sonnet)

God is all in the mind,
What's wrong with that!
Art is also all in the mind,
So, is art nothing but dirt!

Yes, plenty harm has been done,
In the name of God.
The same can be said,
About science and art.

Dividers will always divide,
Haters will always hate.
Apes will find one excuse or another,
To justify their authoritarian trait.

For example, 9/11 wasn't religion's fault,
Any more than Hiroshima was science's fault.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“9/11 wasn't religion's fault, any more than Hiroshima was science's fault.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“All is One in totality, and reality. Get it anyhow. Through science. Or spirituality.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Before the Big Bang was IT - the That of What Is. Call it what you will - the quantum self-essence, the Universal Self. The thing-in-itself. From which comes all that is.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“What can spirituality give to science? Well, it is the knowledge that basically "ALL IS ONE." So, a single atom can solve all our everyday problems. Fuel-free cars, even spacecrafts! Electricity-free homes etc. You name it! Is science up to it?”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Anything can be created from no-thing-ness & all-ness of oneness. It is the Nature of the Absolute. Call it God. Or the First Principle. It is the same constant, 'here' or 'There'. Grasp it via science or spirituality. Isms, yours or mine, are impotent to birth the #Truth.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges
and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
― Blaise Pascal