The Impact on Religion In an essay on "Art and Science", Victor Weisskopf spelled out two cardinal values of humankind, namely knowledge and compassion, adding, "Without knowledge compassion is not efficient but without compassion, knowledge is not human."All religions face these two human quests and endeavours, compassion being better expressed by the Greek word "Agape". God is a concept that puts itself beyond human intelligence but one can at least recognise different images associated with God, which can then be better grasped. There is God the creator (the almighty God) who made the world, a world left to us to discover and understand and there is the God of compassion (sometime even the suffering God) helping us distinguishing good from evil and a companion through prayer across the ups and downs of human life, which depend so much of inter-human relations. This second and anthropocentric facet of God is actually the one, which is most deeply rooted in all religions, while recognizing of course that compassion exists irrespective of any specific religious belief. Religions attempt to bring harmony between humans and harmony between humankind and the Universe. In the latter case they have adapted easily to the fact that the Earth is not central in the Universe as most naturally assumed in genesis composed several thousands years ago. In the context of these highly simplifying remarks, one may say that discovery of life in a rather primitive form elsewhere in the Solar System would not appreciably affect religious feelings. There is no limit for the creation of God and one can but admire it. The discovery of advanced intelligence elsewhere in the Universe would however shake the very special relation, which some religions herald between God and the human race, and would then have a tremendous impact on religious beliefs. However religion, in its quest for harmony, could then help in our accepting a more modest view of our place in the Universe and one may hope that it could also help us avoiding paranoia while developing more compassion with our fellow humans.