Thomas Henry Huxley on Religion
1825–1895 England
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History warns us … that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species (1880)
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitious — fabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance.
The interpreters of Genesis and the interpreters of Nature (1885)