Nicolas Cage Quotes

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

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

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

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

I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

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

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.

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 mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man’s foot and stops him forever from advancing.

I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realization.

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.