Saturday, April 14, 2007

Quotes for the Day: The Place of Religion

"we try hard, in science, to stamp out the influence of wishful thinking, whereas so much of religious thought seems to be nothing much else"

"I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief and anything that we (scientists) can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and they in fact in the end be our greatest gist to civilization."

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

-Steven Weinberg; Prof. Physics, Nobel Prize Winner (Physics)

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