Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

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 can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

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

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

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.

I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith.

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

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 have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

I think science and religion should be separate.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

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.

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.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

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.

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

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

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.