Newton and Descartes started to try and prove that God existed in the same way as they would try and prove something in the laboratory or with their mathematics … And when you try and mix science and religion you get bad science and bad religion. The two are doing two different things. … Science can give you a diagnosis of cancer. It can even cure your disease, but it cannot touch your grief and disappointment, nor can it help you to die well.


Ode interview (2009)

Karen Armstrong Quotes

Newton and Descartes started to try and prove that God existed in the same way as they would try and prove something in the laboratory or with their...

Newton and Descartes started to try and prove that God existed in the same way as they would try and prove something in the laboratory or with their...

Newton and Descartes started to try and prove that God existed in the same way as they would try and prove something in the laboratory or with their...

Newton and Descartes started to try and prove that God existed in the same way as they would try and prove something in the laboratory or with their...