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Some quotes for science and religion

"For the belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world."
Max Born

"A legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein

"It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam - they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change it's fundamental nature."
Brian Appleyard ("Science and the Soul of Modern Man")

"Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but both look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave out essential features of the real world. And both are worthy of respect."
Freeman Dyson

"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…We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be."
Pope John Paul II

"When religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
Thomas Szasz

"Science is an effort to understand the creation. Biblical religion involves our relation to the Creator. Since we can learn about the Creator from his creation, religion can learn from science."
Paul H. Carr

"He who has Art and Science also has religion, But those who do not have them better have Religion."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is more RELIGION in men's SCIENCE than there is SCIENCE in their RELIGION."
Henry David Thoreau ("A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers")

"Science makes major contributions to minor needs. Religion, however small its successes, is at least at work on the things that matter most."
Oliver Wendell Holmes"The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena.

Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning."
Ian Barbour, "Religion and Science," pg. 204

Religion is poetry plus, not science minus."
Krister Stendahl

"Religion is the art of the poetic. Science is the art of the provable. Politics is the art of the possible."
Paul H. Carr

"Traditional religious creation stories and evolution are complementary.
Science and religion together can weave a rich tapestry of new meaning for our age."
Theologian Philip Hefner

"Let no one enter here who does not have faith"
Inscription over the door on Max Plank's Laboratory

"Two things continue to fill the mind with ever increasing awe and admiration:
the starry heavens above and the moral law within"
Immanuel Kant

“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense"
Carl Sagen

“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”
Albert Einstein

“Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.”
Martin Luther King Junior

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