Robert Andrews Millikan Quotes

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

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

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.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

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

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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

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.

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

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

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

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

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man’s foot and stops him forever from advancing.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

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.