Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.
ATTRIBUTION:
Howard Nemerov (1920–1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. “On the Resemblances Between Science and Religion,” Figures of Thought: Speculations on the Meaning of Poetry and Other Essays, Godine (1978).
