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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
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Technology
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…’
Isaac Asimov1920–1992
If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents⁠—the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts⁠—i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy⁠—are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?

I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.

It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein1879–1955
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 122
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
Stephen Hawking1942–2018A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 174
A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year’s Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
- Holidays
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking1942–2018A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 174
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Galileo Galilei1564–1642
- God
Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Nature
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love, Chapter 7
- Morality
I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allenborn 1935