John B. S. Haldane Quotes About Science And Religion

Quotes about: Science And Religion

• The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Wise, Art, Men

• My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Angel, Views

  Preface to "Fact and Faith", 1934.

• The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be in physical science is only an idealized world, while the real universe is the spiritual universe in which spiritual values count for everything.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Spiritual, Real, Science

• There can be no truce between science and religion.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Science And Religion, Truce

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

• We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Moral, Kind, Tradition

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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