Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

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.

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

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

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.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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

I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton! Let each man hope and believe what he can.

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.

The basis of religion is independent of science. Theology, not religion, is the antithesis to science

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?

Being is the great explainer.