Physical science is opposed to both religion and metaphysics, and yet is forever attracted toward them; because, struggle as it may, in them alone can it find its own completion.
The religious sect that condemns reason, condemns itself; and the latter sentence is the only one which will be executed.
The poetry of science will be the inspiration of the religion of the future.
Were there a religion other than human, it could not appeal to humanity.
The human cannot get along without the divine in some form. The least religious men, such as gamblers, are the most superstitious. As Novalis says, “Where the gods are not, ghosts take their place.”