65 Quotes by Jerry A. Coyne

[W]hen one has a religious experience, what is 'true' is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality. To determine that, one needs a way to verify the contents of a revelation, and that means science.

Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn’t exist.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God’s or Jesus’s commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.

You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.