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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

– Arthur C. ClarkeRate it:

Science can make you smart, but it doesn't guarantee you'll be a good person. This is where religion comes in, to eliminate selfishness and bring kindness. That's how you build a society, both are useful.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

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

– Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.Rate it:

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

– John OwenRate it:

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

– Elvin StackmanRate it:

Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.

– Thomas H. HuxleyRate it:

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

– Marguerite de ValoisRate it:

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

– Isaac AsimovRate it:

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

– John BurroughsRate it:

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

– Edgar Allan PoeRate it:

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

– Ashley MontagueRate it:

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated

– Tyron EdwardsRate it:

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

– Tryon EdwardsRate it:

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

– Alexis CarrelRate it:

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

– Miguel de UnamunoRate it:

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

– Alan TuringRate it:

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

– Oliver Wendell HolmesRate it:

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

– Isaac AsimovRate it:

Science is a seagull, it knows the sky; it is a squirrel, it knows the forest; it is a mole, it knows the underground; it is a dolphin, it knows the ocean! Science is a multi-talented creature!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

Science is but an image of the truth.

– Francis BaconRate it:

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

– ColeyRate it:

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

– Edgar QuinetRate it:

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