Scientists on Religion

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**Edmund T. Whittaker **Mathematical Physicist

“There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo—Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.”
 
Carl Jung, Psychiatrist

“The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.”
 
Jean-Henri Fabre Entomologist

“Without Him, I understand nothing; without Him, all is darkness…Every period has its manias.”

“I regard Atheism as a mania. It is the malady of the age.”
 
Isaac Newton, Physicist

“Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowells) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more? Whence arises this uniformity in all their outward shapes but from the counsel & contrivance of an Author? Whence is it that the eyes of all sorts of living creatures are transparent to the very bottom & the only transparent members in the body, having on the outside an hard transparent skin, & within transparent juices with a crystalline Lens in the middle & a pupil before the Lens all of them so truly shaped & fitted for vision, that no Artist can mend them? Did blind chance know that there was light & what was its refraction & fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These & such like considerations always have & ever will prevail with man kind to believe that there is a being who made all things & has all things in his power & who is therefore to be feared.”
 
Blaise Pascal, Mathematician, Inventor, Theologian

“Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness engenders pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God engenders despair.”
 
Samuel Morse, Inventor

“Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.”
 
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher, Mathematician

“I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.”
 
Alan Perlis, Computer Scientist

“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
 
Francis Bacon, Philosopher of Science

“There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error: first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.”
 
Jorge Luis Borges, Writer

“The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.”
 
Blaise Pascal, Mathematician, Inventor, Theologian

“It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .”
 
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
– Albert Einstein

“I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.”
– Fred Hoyle

“What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.”
– C.S. Lewis
 
Arthur C. Clarke, Science Writer

“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.”
 
Alvin Toffler, Author

“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.” Alvin Toffler
 
Orson Welles, Actor, Director

“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.”
 
Blaise Pascal, Mathematician, Inventor, Theologian

“Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.”
 
Richard Dawkins, Biologist

“My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.” Richard Dawkins
 
Robert Bork, Jurist

“The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.”
 
Rupert Sheldrake, Biologist

“I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.”
 
Mary Astell, Feminist Writer

“It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.”
 
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