Wernher von Braun Quotes

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

The scientist insists on verification; the religious theologian does not; the philosopher sometimes does and sometimes does not

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

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

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

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

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

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

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

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.

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