Carroll Quigley Quotes

Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.

A scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

In my own life, my science and my religion are separate.

I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.

As I see it, religion shouldn't interfere in a relationship.

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

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

Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your conduct. And it's the yes to that question that applies to 40% of scientists. So, there're plenty of atheists who are scientists or not scientists. There maybe a conflict but many people in this country coexist in both worlds.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we do - what we're really good at, which is - which is theology and morality.

Religion has always persecuted science.