Bertrand Russell Quotes

Religious thinkers have done their best to twist science and philosophy to back up their law.

The basis of religion is independent of science. Theology, not religion, is the antithesis to science

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

Philosophy was once considered science.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

Theology is a subject without an object

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

I believe in order that I may understand.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.