Max Planck Quotes

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.

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.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

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

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

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

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

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

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

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.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.

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