Blaise Pascal Quotes

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

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

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.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

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.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.