If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not … - Jerry A. Coyne

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Just as you commit to this life when it commits to leaving you.

Jerry A. Coyne

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

Attributing, Conquers, Giving Up, Ignorance, Research, Work

Same Author Quotes

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.

History Of Science, Ignorance, Science, Shows

Science has only two things to contribute to religion: an analysis of the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological basis for believing things that aren't true, and a scientific disproof of some of faith's claims (e. g. , Adam and Eve, the Great Flood). Religion has nothing to contribute to science, and science is best off staying as far away from faith as possible. The "constructive dialogue" between science and faith is, in reality, a destructive monlogue, with science making all the good points, tearing down religion in the process.

Believe, Contribute, Monlogue, Reality, Tearing, Two

The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources.

Basis, Christian, Innate, Jesus, People

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

Employs, Have Faith, Results, Understanding, Use

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

Atheism, Based, Doubt, Questioning, Religion

Similar Quotes

Zhang Huan

I want it to be 70 per cent beautiful, 15 per cent surrealistically beautiful, and the rest so beautiful that nobody can bear it.

Bear, Bears, Beautiful, Cent, Rest, Want

Robert Greene

Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [. . . ]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle. Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal enough, but were spoken so sweetly that listeners would find themselves remembering not what she said but how she said it.

Clever, Lying, Eye, Cleopatra, Goddesslike, Brave

Akiane Kramarik

Just as you commit to this life when it commits to leaving you.

Commit, Leaving, Life, This Life

Robert Downey, Jr.

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.

Bisexual, Eccentric, Groups, Peer, Thinking

Sherrilyn Kenyon

In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn’t it? (Fang)

Age, Dark, Good, Markus, Twenties