Marilynne Robinson Quotes

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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.

Science is not wisdom.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

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

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

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

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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

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

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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

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

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.