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“I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.”

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George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) was an Irish-British playwright, critic, and socialist. He is renowned for his satirical and witty dramatic works. more

“Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.”

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Book:Selections and Essays

Source: Selections and Essays

“No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.”

Should Path Science And Religion

Author:Albert Einstein

“Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.”

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Book:My Religion

Source: My Religion

“Science is the natural ally of religion.”

Natural Allies Science And Religion

Book:The Sermons of Religion

Source: The Sermons of Religion

“The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.”

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Book:Table talk, 1941-1944

Source: Table talk, 1941-1944

“The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”

Source: Collected essays

“There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.”

Science And Religion Disputes

Author:Rudolf Virchow

“True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it is their business to defend such a successful system against criticism as long as it is not conclusively disproved - are adopting the very reverse of that critical attitude which in my view is the proper one for the scientist.”

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Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

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