Jamin Gray > Jamin's Quotes

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“All of this suggests that lack of religious belief is a side effect of doing science. And as repugnant as that is to many, it’s really no surprise. For some people, at least, science’s habit of requiring evidence for belief, combined with its culture of pervasive doubt and questioning, must often carry over to other aspects of one’s life—including the possibility of religious faith.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

“My claim is this: science and religion are incompatible because they have different methods for getting knowledge about reality, have different ways of assessing the reliability of that knowledge, and, in the end, arrive at conflicting conclusions about the universe.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible