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).

Genesis Versus Nature (1885)[mathcs.clarku.edu]

Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...