Even mathematics had a religious impulse behind its teachings.

"They'd rather cook up addlepated theories than look at the real effects of human religious impulses."

But you must also understand: no religious impulse guided me.

At this early period, a sense of the tension between his religious and worldly impulses is evident.

The question was, what precise direction would this religious impulse take?

In every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined.

He had underestimated the power of the religious impulse.

It is almost impossible, in fact, to separate the religious impulse from early science.

It would also be highly ironic in a culture often described as lacking the religious impulse.

Most sensible citizens support churches, and therefore the religious impulse which creates them.