Lyman Abbott Quotes

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

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

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

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

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.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

I think spirituality, even if there's no God, even if there's nothing - I consider myself relatively spiritual. I believe in a God. I don't know what it's like, but I do believe in it. It's the only thing that makes any sense. Maybe I'm just looking for order in the chaos. Though, I do believe in Evolution and I do believe in science.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.

I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

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

I believe in a magnificent God.