God or any other supernatural agent doesn’t have what it takes to act upon physical things. ibid. Professor Bede Rundle
Science and superstition – you can never reconcile them. ibid. Professor Richard Friend
Whose soul is it and what good is it? ibid. Professor George Lakoff
All the religions are in conflict with one another. ibid. Sir John Sulston
We don’t need a lawgiver. ibid. Professor Shelley Kagan
I’ve never had any feeling for the intelligent designer approach. ibid. Roy J Glauber
I’m against religion when it interferes with the lives of other people. ibid. Professor Lewis Wolpert
I was born into a Zoroastrian family; I stopped believing roughly around the age of eight. ibid. Professor Mahzarin Banaji
By adding unchanging in order to keep omnipotence that’s going to conflict with active in the world. ibid. Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
When you talk about decent scientists today who are religious ask them very carefully precisely what it is they believe. ibid. Professor Richard Dawkins
This assumption that the mind is separate from the body ... underpins notions of the afterlife. ibid. Professor Bruce Hood
Religion is wonderful ways to save a person’s time. ibid. Professor Marvin Minsky
A fierce battle between Science and Religion. ibid. Professor Herman Philipse
The afterlife ... There’s no proof it exists. ibid. Michio Kaku
The culture of religion ... is so huge. ibid. Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey
It’s not like we invented the cube. ibid. Professor Max Tegmark
I’m a rational humanist. ibid. Professor David Parkin
Jesus – it’s a matter of indifference. ibid. Professor Robert Price
If there were creator gods the world would be different. ibid. Professor Jonathan Haidt
I don’t think we should upset those people who do. ibid. Professor Max Perutz
There is no possible way of discerning his existence. ibid. Professor Rodolfo Llinas
I’ve never been religious. ibid. Professor Dan McKenzie
There is no non-physical mind or soul. ibid. Professor Patricia Churchland
Once they invented Newtonian mechanics, arguments for the existence of God shifted their focus. ibid. Professor Sean Carroll
A personal God – and that I don’t believe. ibid. Professor Alexander Vilenkin
The question does God exist is nonsense ... Wishful thinking. ibid. Professor P Z Myers
I decided then as a thinking child that religion was not good for one. ibid. Professor Haroon Ahmed
Deism morphed into atheism. ibid. Professor David Sloan Wilson
The Bible is the most ... misunderstood book in the history of civilisation ... If He meant to give us His very words, why didn’t He make sure we received them? ibid. Professor Bart Ehrman
We’ve gotten a much better grasp at the way the universe is put together. ibid. Professor Seth Lloyd
Entirely atheist and always have been. ibid. Professor Dan Brown
People who say that Science has nothing to say about God are just wrong. ibid. Professor Victor Stenger
Maintaining the culture is maintaining the faith. ibid. Professor Simon Schaffer
I’m not sure that it nails the case of is there a purpose that’s written in the universe. ibid. Professor Saul Perlmutter
That’s a lot of what religion’s about – witchdoctors. ibid. Professor Lee Silver
I’m not a religious or orthodox Jew. ibid. Professor Barry Supple
A being you don’t understand or know – what will that lead you to? ibid. Professor Alan Dershowitz
Drugs that produce religious experiences. ibid. Professor John Raymond Smythies
I can’t identify with any of it myself. ibid. Professor Chris Hann
Religion has been on the retreat in those areas of overlap. ibid. Professor David Gross
To have conviction is very different from having faith. ibid. Professor Ronald de Sousa
When we got to England he was a Christian and I was an atheist. ibid. Professor Robert Hinde
We as astronomers confront the big questions of wonder every day. ibid. Professor Carolyn Porco
I want to unearth this buried history: to discover its great figures and to assess exactly where their contribution to science really was. Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Science & Islam 1/3: The Language of Science, BBC 2009
What is the relationship between Science and Islam? ibid.
The language of modern science still has many references to its Arabic roots. ibid.
From the twelfth to the seventeenth century European scholars regularly referred to earlier Islamic texts. ibid.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi showed Europeans that there’s a better way of doing arithmetic. In his book entitled The Hindu Art of Reckoning he describes a revolutionary idea: you can represent any number you like with just ten simple symbols. ibid.
They invented the decimal point. ibid.
A language that was specially developed to be precise and unambiguous which made it ideal for scientific and technical terms. ibid.
The Translation Movement ... Bringing a book to the Khalif for him to add to his library could be extremely lucrative ... He repaid him its weight in gold. ibid.
Fresh in the memory of many in the empire was the story of the destruction of the original library of Alexandria. ibid.
Islamic medicine built extensively on the foundations laid by the ancient Greeks. ibid.
In the backstreets of Tunisia this knowledge is still being used. But medieval Islamic doctors were also aware of other traditional medicines from China and India. ibid.
A religion whose central idea is that we should feel compassion for our fellow humans. ibid.
Perhaps the most ghoulish aspect of Islamic medicine – surgery. ibid.
Eye surgery was one of Islamic medicine’s great successes. ibid.
Arabic scholars actually cracked hieroglyphics. ibid.
Algebra ... That sort of knowledge wins wars. ibid.
Algebra has helped create the modern world. ibid.
Modern medicine owes a considerable debt to the work of Islamic physicians. ibid.
It’s a body of knowledge that benefits all humans. ibid.
The legacy of the medieval Islamic empire is scattered across a vast region. Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Science & Islam 2/3: The Empire of Reason
In the second decade of the 9th century A.D. Al-Mamoon commissioned a new map of the world. And his scientists did a pretty impressive job. ibid.
Alchemy ... I believe it took Islamic scholars to turn this quasi-religion into something much more scientific: chemistry. ibid.
Coin-making is one of the many examples of how the practical needs of the booming economy began to turn the magical practice of alchemy into modern chemistry. ibid.
Islamic chemists discovered they could change the colour of glass. ibid.
Chemistry was also driven by the booming market in perfumes. ibid.
Abu al-Haytham combined the two Greek ideas and defined our modern understanding of light and vision ... his Book of Optics. ibid.
The scientific method is I believe the single most important idea the human race has ever come up with. ibid.
They did teach us how to ask the right questions. ibid.