Ashley Montagu Quotes

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all. Like the majority of men who are born to a given belief, they demand the most rigorous proof of any adverse belief, but assume that their own needs none.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

Science is facts.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton! Let each man hope and believe what he can.

The scientist insists on verification; the religious theologian does not; the philosopher sometimes does and sometimes does not

Evolutionary Darwinists need to understand we are taking the dinosaurs back. This is a battle cry to recognize the science in the revealed truth of God., Did you know you can ask very simple questions to the scientists who claim that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago? You could say to them, in a very nice way of course, "Excuse me, were you there?" You are actually asking them, "Were you there to see the dinosaurs when they first came into existence? Were you there to see them alive? Were you there to see them die out?" Obviously, they weren't there, so how could they really know everything about them?

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .