Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Science

• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

• We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Science

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

• Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Commitment, Science

• Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wise, Science, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.23, Beacon Press

• We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  God, Fear, Science

  Strength Through Love Ch. 13

• The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Science, Men

• The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Pain, Fear

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

• The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Pain, Science, Ideas

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.3, Beacon Press

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