Ian Barbour Quotes

United States, Scholar
October 5, 1923 – December, 24, 2013.

Ian Graeme Barbour, was an American scholar on the relationship between science and religion. According to the Public Broadcasting Service his mid-1960s Issues in Science and Religion "has been credited with literally creating the contemporary field of science and religion.

The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.

Ian Barbour
The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena.

Ian Barbour

The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.

Ian Barbour
- People
- Good
- God
Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

Ian Barbour
Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.

Ian Barbour
- God
- Doubt
- Illusions