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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing1912–1954Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954); reprinted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: the Enigma (Vintage edition 1992), p. 513.
- Science
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Sex
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion, other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark Twain1835–1910In: William E. Phipps Mark Twain’s Religion, Mercer University Press, 2003, p. 196
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Christianity
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain1835–1910
There warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s cool. If you notice, most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a hog is different.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Comedy
Christ is with us until the world’s end. Let his little flock be bold therefore.
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
William Tyndale1494–1536The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
- Christianity
- Courage
They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he’s coming back to save us. But they don’t understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
- Christianity
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
?UnattributedOften credited to Patrick Henry
- America
- Christianity
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
?UnattributedIn Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell (US: Viking, 2006), p. 17
- Anti-Religion
- Philosophy
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
United States CongressThe Bill of Rights (Proposed 1789, ratified 1791), Amendment IIn context
- Freedom
- Liberty
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe.
John Updike1932–2009Self-Consciousness: Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
John Updike1932–2009Introduction to The Best American Short Stories of 1984 (1984)
- Writing
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom
It is in love that religion exists and not in ceremony, in the pure and sincere love in the heart. Unless a man is pure in body and mind, his coming into a temple and worshipping Shiva is useless.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Address at the Rameswaram Temple on Real Worship
- Love