Quotes About Belief

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.