“Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.”– E. O. Wilson Related Quotes “If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.”– H. P. Lovecraft “God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.”— Keith Ablow “I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.”– Brian Eno