Harry Kroto Quotes

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

Religion was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were taught in all the other classes.

I don't like religion.

I don't believe in the concept of religion.

I'm not really into religion.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

Religion is just mind control.