“If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.”
"The Reverent Thomas' Dirty Little Planet", p. 141
Ever Since Darwin (1977)
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“The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.”
As quoted in obituary '"Reinhold Niebuhr Is Dead; Protestant Theologian, 78" by Alden Whitman in The New York Times (2 June 1971) http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/niebuhr.pdf
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. xvi
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”
As quoted in Bernard Shaw : The Lure of Fantasy (1991) by Michael Holroyd
1940s and later
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 94
Context: Religion and science go together. As I've said before, science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. They are interdependent and have a common goal—the search for truth. Hence it is absurd for religion to proscribe Galileo or Darwin or other scientists. And it is equally absurd when scientists say that there is no God. The real scientist has faith, which does not mean that he must subscribe to a creed. Without religion there is no charity. The soul given to each of us is moved by the same living spirit that moves the universe.
Sweet Morality (p. 224)
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (2011)