Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

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

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.

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

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

I regard religion itself as quite unnecessary for a nation's life; science is far above superstition; and what is religion, Buddhism or Christianity, but superstition, and therefore a possible source of weakness to a nation?

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Human science and religion have kept company together and greatly assisted each other's progress in the world. I do not say that intellectual and moral qualities are in the same proportion in particular persons; but they have a great and friendly influence upon one another in societies and larger bodies.

I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I don't believe in God.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

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

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

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

I'm not a religious person at all.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.