Famous Quotes

"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion."

Michael Shermer on Religion

More quotes about Religion

• "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."

  Dalai Lama on Religion

• "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Religion

• "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

  C. S. Lewis on Religion

• "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

  C. S. Lewis on Religion

• "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

  Albert Camus on Religion

More quotes by Michael Shermer

• "Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known."

• "Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic."

• "But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths."

• "Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion."

• "But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science."