Vinod Khosla Quotes

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

I think science and religion should be separate.

This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

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

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

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

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.

In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.