Robert H. Jackson Quotes

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

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

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.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

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

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

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

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.