Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

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

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

Science is the poetry of reality.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

Science is but an image of the truth.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Science is nothing but perception.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

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

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.