Religious Views Quotes - Page 2

• Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Views, Theory Of Evolution

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• When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not interfere with religious affairs. Now, if our marital relations are not religious, what is? This ordinance of marriage was a direct revelation to us, through Joseph Smith, the prophet. . . . This is a revelation from God and a command to his people, and therefore it is my religion. I do not believe that the Supreme Court of the United States has any right to interfere with my religious views, and in doing it they are violating their most sacred obligations.

  John Taylor

  Religious, Party, Believe

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• To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Religious, Views

  Cal Thomas (1994). “The things that matter most”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Believe, Views

  Speech at Greater Houston Ministerial Association, Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 1960.

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• I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

  Charles Darwin

  Religious, Science, Views

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.

  Bertram Brockhouse

  Religious, Science, Views

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• ... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Pride, Men

  Middlemarch Ch. 21

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