Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

The scientist insists on verification; the religious theologian does not; the philosopher sometimes does and sometimes does not

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

I think science and religion should be separate.

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

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

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

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

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

Science and religion are non-overlapping magisteria.

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

There is scarce any Principle, neither in the worship of God, nor humane sciences, from whence there may not spring dissentions, discords, reproaches, and by degrees war it self

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war.

God has created a logical universe of cause and effect. He who repudiates causality actually repudiates reason.

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

In my own life, my science and my religion are separate.

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

Religion has always persecuted science.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created