Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone. - Thomas Henry Huxley

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.

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.