Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.
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Related The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religi... SAMUEL BUTLER The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religiou... SAMUEL BUTLER I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs. DANNEL MALLOY I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole. GARY JOHNSON The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religiou... FULTON J. SHEEN My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have i... MALCOLM X If the federal government believes free contraception is vital, then surely it can find another way ... LUTHER STRANGE My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go ... D. H. LAWRENCE My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go ... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so compr... VIKTOR E. FRANKL The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares no... ERIC HOFFER You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil. JULIANA HATFIELD God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles HELEN SCHUCMAN The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, ar... MUHAMMAD IQBAL In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony. 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SAM HARRIS I'm sad to see that in my own (religious) tradition. I do understand what they're responding to. The... JEFFREY SCHLOSS While many religious conservatives may have qualms with aspects of Mormon theology, they have even g... MICHAEL CROMARTIE In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, drea... ALVIN PLANTINGA Religious nuts, atheists, theists, as too most scientists fail to "get" IT - the Ultimate Reality - ... FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common g... GARY HERBERT A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message alm... A. J. GOSSIP While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should ... SAINT IGNATIUS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS He was very active in a lot of education and religious and political activities all his life. JAMES DOYLE Intelligent design is simply the most recent version of creationism, which is admittedly a religious... ALAN LESHNER I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were n... ORSON PRATT This statements are not the rantings of some religious nut, but what the Bible actually says, ... (T... JAMES TUCKER When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commo... THEODORE GOMPERZ Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere e... RUSSELL M. NELSON Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right. GRATEFUL DEAD Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to... ROBERT BURTON If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, ... ANN COULTER What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated? JEFFREY A. WHITE Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a reli... KAREN MAITLAND A religious person, who spends his time in devotion and worship gets blessed with happiness and pros... RIG VEDA The Warrior of the Light is a believer. Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin t... PAULO COELHO there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I w... ALBERT EINSTEIN Most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their ... ABHIJIT NASKAR A non-religious prison when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religi... LORD MAHAVIRA A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religi... LORD MAHAVIRA Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ... MARK TWAIN We are concentrating on the religious elements, using religious terminology, in trying to appeal to ... IBRAHIM SARSUR The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addictio... JOHN BRADSHAW If anyone felt offended in his religious feelings, I freely ask him in a Christian manner for forgiv... CESARE CAVALLERI Most of the ranchers are rural, conservative, Republican, heterosexual and religious. And most of th... DOC HATFIELD In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and... ISABEL ALLENDE There is an air of religious pilgrimage to seeing a star's home. It is a bit like journeying to a re... MARTIN KAPLAN I've never been a materialist; I've never been somebody who believes in only what we can see... SCOTT DERRICKSON People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, 'Oh, ... DAVID BECKHAM While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilit... SAM HARRIS Religious traditions and selfish agenda are laid aside when we are poor in spirit SUNDAY ADELAJA All human symptoms and problems, when they are taken to their depth and realized in a soulful way, f... THOMAS MOORE I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty... ROB PORTMAN Life's irony;Behind all the facades in most religious houses is just one thing,"please do quickly fo... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable posit... NEIL POSTMAN Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the Tru... MARK TWAIN It is not correct... to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science. It only crea... FIORENZO FACCHINI Board members in starkly religious terms changed the science curriculum to advance a specific religi... ERIC ROTHSCHILD It puts you in a place, ... You might call it the most religious experience you could ever have. You... ART BREWER The saying,"take up your cross & follow him," is best described in religious circles,because most re... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the gove... JOHN ADAMS It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, dee... SAM HARRIS So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his ... DAVE BARRY Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's ... DANNEL MALLOY
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