Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

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

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.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

Religion was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were taught in all the other classes.

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn't add up.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

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.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

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

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

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

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

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.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

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