William Henry Bragg Quotes

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to peoples' lives. Science is more about the mechanics of the universe around us and the way in which it works. And I don't think those things have to be mutually exclusive.

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

You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.

Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's not a matter of using it to explain things that scientists are mystified by.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Tension is the great integrity.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

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

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

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

At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the nature of our universe in these two modes of thinking, I see many commonalities and crossovers between science and religion. It seems logical that in the long run the two will even converge.

Nature is harmony in discord.

Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.

Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don't really understand why they can't wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.