Charles Darwin on science

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe[s], to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

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