Garrett Hardin Quotes

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

A scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

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.

Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.

Westboro's fire and brimstone message was the air I breathed all my life. But after joining Twitter at the age of 23, I encountered people who challenged my beliefs and unearthed contradictions my blind faith had missed.

There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.