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Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 1: In Praise of Diversity
- Science
To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Progress In Religion (2000)
- Science
Religion amplifies the good and evil tendencies of individual souls.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Progress In Religion (2000)
- Good & Evil
Religion is all bunk.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Religion and Science (1930)
- Anti-Religion
- Morality
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Science and Religion (1941)
- Science
It was the experience of mystery⁠—even if mixed with fear⁠—that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty…this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
As a child, I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Viereck interview (1929)
- Christianity
I am neither a German citizen nor do I believe in anything that can be described as a “Jewish faith.” But I am a Jew and glad to belong to the Jewish people, though I do not regard it in any way as chosen.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (April 1920), as quoted in Alice Calaprice, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010), p. 195
No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Interview with George Sylvester Viereck (1929), as reported in Denis Brian, Einstein: A Life (1996)
- Christianity
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.
Albert Einstein1879–1955The World As I See It (1949)
- Life & Death
Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane.
Mircea Eliade1907–1986The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion (1959), trans. Willard R. Trask, Introduction
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis1859–1939Often credited to Thomas Paine