Scientists on Religion

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James Jeans, Physicist

“The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.”
 
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”

― Neil deGrasse Tyson
 
Archibald MacLeish, Poet

“We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.”
 
D.H. Lawrence, Novelist

“Ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”
 
Adlai Stevenson, Statesman

“Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom, only in men’s souls.”
 
Dwight David Eisenhower, Statesman

“The United States pledges before you—and therefore before the world—its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma—to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.”

“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
 
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

“Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.”
 
G.K. Chesterton, Author

“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”
 
Carl Jung, Psychologist

“Among all my patients in the second half of life … there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.”
 
Douglas Busch,

“Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.”
 
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

“I was told the Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.”
 
Anonymous

“On 13 September 1765 people in fields near Luce, in France, saw a stone mass drop from the sky after a violent thunderclap. The great physicist Lavoisier, who knew better than any peasant that this was impossible, reported to the Academy of Science that the witnesses were mistaken or lying. The Academy would not accept the reality of meteorites until 1803.”
 
Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Writer

Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered Sodium.
 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

“I believe the souls of five hundred Sir Isaac Newtons would go to the making of a Shakespeare or a Milton.”
 
W.H. Auden, Poet

“When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”
 
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Writer

“Mr. Darwin … has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.”
 
Henri Poincare, Theoretical Physicist

“Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.”
 
E.Y. Harburg, Songwriter

The World would b e a safer place,
If someone had a plan,
Before exploring Outer Space,
To find the Inner Man.
 
Martin H. Fischer, Physician

“Don’t confuse *hypothesis *and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.”
 
Julian Huxley, Biologist

“The human race will be the cancer of the planet.”
 
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