{"quotes":[{"text":"It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["creationism","fundamentalism","inspirational","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy-of-religion","philosophy-of-science","religious-extremism","religious-violence","science","science-and-religion","science","science-vs-religion","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":11562,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person’s development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person’s religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["belief","belief","belief-system","beliefs","brainy","neuroscience","neurotheology","religious-beliefs","religious-diversity","religious-extremism","religious-faith","religious-freedom","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","science-and-religion","truth"],"id":12046,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"It is pretty simple - mind is a part of life - consciousness is a part of mind - God is a part of consciousness.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","consciousness-explained","consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness","god","inspirational","inspiring","life","mind","neuroscience","neurotheology","pearls-of-wisdom","philosophy-of-science","science-and-religion","theology","truth"],"id":17193,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","humanism","humanist","humanitarian","inspiring","motivational","pearls-of-wisdom","philosopher","philosophy-of-religion","religion","religion-and-philosophy","religious","sage","sage-sayings","science-and-religion","scientist","thinker","wise-sayings"],"id":21485,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"When circumstances pour the minds of some young helpless individuals with hatred and rage towards the society, and when that pain, hatred, and rage become unbearable, they turn to the scriptures as the final resort, in a pursuit to find absolution, guided by the psychopathic, misogynistic, genocidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent, fundamentalist preachers.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["fundamentalism","inspiration","inspirational","inspiring","neuroscience","neurotheology","philosophy-of-religion","religious-extremism","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion"],"id":22783,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["delicate","disasters","existence","existence-of-man","existence","existence","existence","human-mind","human-mind","human-mind","humanity","humanity","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","life","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","natural-disaster","natural-disasters","our-existence","science","science-and-change","science-and-religion","science-quotation","science","space","space","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","ultimate-objective","universe","universe-gigantic-power","universe-messages","universe","universe","universe"],"id":24745,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["choice","creed","future","integrity","mind","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion","value"],"id":28447,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"Science and religion have in common the aim of seeking and achieving unity. Most scientists today are being led increasingly away from the fundamental aim of science to achieve unity into rather limited ways of thinking without much open-mindedness, doing things merely to meet limited material needs.","author":"Maurice Wilkins","tags":["materialism","science","science-and-religion"],"id":32532,"author_id":"Maurice+Wilkins"},{"text":"One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is made that that belief in the success of science in describing the workings of the world is no longer thought to be in conflict with faith in God. I would like to argue against this trend, in favor of a more old-fashioned point of view that is still more characteristic of most scientists, who tend to disbelieve in any religious component to the workings of the universe.","author":"Sean Carroll","tags":["academia","irreligion","irreligious","knowledge","science","science-and-religion","superstition","understanding","universe"],"id":34174,"author_id":"Sean+Carroll"},{"text":"Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There's a plenty of signs. He is getting belittled to a germ—a little bit of a speck that you can't see without a microscope powerful enough to raise a gnat to the size of a church.('The Refuge of the Derelicts' collected in Mark Twain and John Sutton Tuckey, The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings (1980), 340-41. - 1980).","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["adam","adam-and-eve","bible","charles-darwin","church","darwin","ernst-haeckel","evolution","genesis","germ","haeckel","herbert-spencer","huxley","religion","science","science-and-religion","spencer","t-h-huxley","thomas-henry-huxley","thomas-huxley"],"id":34264,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":143,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}