65 Quotes by Jerry A. Coyne

Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

Theology is a subject without an object. Theologians don’t study God – they study what other theologians have said.” The claims.

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn’t come close.

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

Once again, the only sensible approach is tentatively to reject the dragon hypothesis, to be open to future physical data, and to wonder what the cause might be that so many apparently sane and sober people share the same strange delusion.

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can’t reconcile for yourself.

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.

If you can’t think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn’t scientific.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn’t happen? That’s not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.