Scientists on Religion

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Simon Conway Morris Paleontologist

“It was G.K. Chesterton who trenchantly reminded us that, if one was going to preach, then it was more sensible to expend one’s energies on addressing the converted rather than the unconverted. It was the former, after all, that were—and even more so are—in constant danger of missing the point and sliding away from the Faith into some vague sort of syncretistic, gnostic, gobbledygook. Chesterton, as ever, was right and should you think this is just another of his tiresome paradoxes may I urge you to re-read him: his prescience concerning our present situation and, worse, where we are heading is astounding.”
 
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of catepillars.”
  • Charles Darwin
“There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact.”
  • Nikola Tesla
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life… but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.”
  • Chuck Easttom
“God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
-Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The best argument against religion is a five-minute conversation with the average religious person.”
  • Bill Nye
“It would be fantastic if science diminished the societal influence of religion, since religion encourages people to force the universe to conform to their beliefs. Science forces beliefs to conform to evidence of reality. That leads to much better policies for society.”
  • Lawrence Krauss
“Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunize against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology had done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.”
  • Richard Dawkins
“If I could wave a magic wand and get rid of either rape or religion, I would not hesitate to get rid of religion.”
  • Sam Harris
For anyone using Albert Einstein or Sir Isaac Newton Quotes:

“I have studied the matter. You sir, have not.” (Said in defense of astrology, to skeptic Edmund Halley).
  • Sir Isaac Newton
    *Newton was a very staunch believer in astrology and horoscopes.
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.”
  • Albert Einstein
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. 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.”
  • Albert Einstein
 
Albert Einstein Physicist

“In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support for such views.”
 
Charlemagne_III said:
Albert Einstein Physicist

“In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support for such views.”
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I never made the claim that Einstein was an atheist, just pointing out that he did not believe in a personal god that answers prayers, etc.
 
Jerbear said:
I never made the claim that Einstein was an atheist, just pointing out that he did not believe in a personal god that answers prayers, etc.
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“I want to know how God created this world. I’m not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts, the rest are details.” Albert Einstein

Einstein, as you point out, did not believe in a personal God. Yet his God has a mind. It’s curious, isn’t it that, that a God without a personality could still have a mind. Isn’t “mind” the most visible sign of personality?
 
**Russell Stannard **Physicist

“A completed book exists in its entirety, although we humans read it in a time sequence from the beginning to the end. Just as an author does not write the first chapter, and then leave the others to write themselves, So God’s creativity is not to seem as uniquely confined to, or even especially invested in, the event of the Big Bang. Rather his creativity has been seen as permeating equally all space and all time: his role as Creator and Sustainer merge.”
 
**Werhner von Braun **NASA engineer

“Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable, and yet it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies, and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electron as real, while refusing to accept the reality of God on the ground that they cannot conceive him?”
 
Allan Sandage Astronomer

“I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.”
 
**Hermann Weyl **Mathematician

“God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can’t prove it!”
 
Henri Poincare Mathematician

“Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; … It shows us how small is man’s body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony.”
 
Johannes Kepler Astronomer

“The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Praise Him, celestial harmonies, and all ye who can comprehend them! And thou, my soul, praise thy Creator! It is by Him and in Him that all exist.”
 
Carlo Rubbia Physicist Nobel Prize

“The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. It is an intelligence so great that just by observing natural phenomena I come to the conclusion that a Creator exists.”
 
John Stewart Bell Physicist

“I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles.”
 
**Paul Scherrer **Physicist

“To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.”
 
John von Neumann Mathematician

“There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn’t.”
 
**J. Richard Gott ** Astrophysicist

“I believe in God; I always thought that was the humble position to take. I like what Einstein said: ‘God is subtle but not malicious.’ I think if you want to know how the universe started, that’s a legitimate question for physics. But if you want to know why it’s here, then you may have to know—to borrow Stephen Hawking’s phrase—the mind of God.”
 
**Werner Heisenberg ** Physicist

“Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.”
 
Hugh Ross Astrophysicist

“Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join ‘the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.’”
 
Anthony Hewish Physicist Nobel Prize

“Religion has a most important role in pointing out that there is more to life than selfish materialism.”
 
Alain Aspect Physicist

“It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality.”
 
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