Alexander Pope on science

How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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

Albert Einstein1879–1955Science and Religion (1941)

• Religion

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

Richard Feynman1918–1988

• Sex

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

• God