Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

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.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

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

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

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

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

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.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

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

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Religion is just mind control.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

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.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

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.