Quotes about Religion
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
A general problem with much of the theology is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less of a universe.
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.
The definition of faith: acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that`s a really good argument; my position is mistaken", and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn`t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.