Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

America is an unusually religious nation.

No other single innovation had so much impact on history.

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.

I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important.

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.