Scientists on Religion

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Francis Bacon, Philosopher of Science

“After all our wanderings through the labyrinths of science, religion is the haven and Sabbath of man’s contemplation.”
 
John Tyndall, Physicist

“Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain.”
 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

God himself is the best Poet,
And the Real is his song.
 
Anonymous

“life’s greatest tragedy is the man with a 10x12 intellect and a 2x4 soul.”
 
Charles Darwin, Biologist

“What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel works of nature!”

(letter to J.D. Hooker, 1856)
 
Samuel Butler, Author

“A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.”

“Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
 
J.B.S. Haldane, Geneticist

“I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different if biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.”
 
Arnold Toynbee, Historian

“We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.”
 
Paul Valéry, Poet

“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”
 
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
 
St. Paul, I Timothy 6:20

“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so-called.”
 
Pierre-Edme Chauvot Beauchene, Physician

“Science seldom renders men amiable; women, never.”
 
J. Frank Dobie, Author

“Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding the answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.”
 
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Physiologist Nobel Laureate

“Discovery consists of seeing everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
 
Arthur Eddington, Astrophysicist

“Man is slightly nearer to the atom than the stars. From his central position he can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist.”
 
Aldous Huxley, Author

“Science has ‘explained’ nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
 
James Jeans, Physicist

“Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.”

“Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.”
 
Joseph Needham, Biochemist

“The place where we do our scientific work is a place of prayer.”
 
Miguel de Unamuno, Philosopher

“Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.”
 
J.B.S. Haldane, Geneticist

“Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein’s name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind.”
 
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