Quotes About Belief

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God".

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

I don't believe in natural science.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.