Quotes About Trust

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.