Quotes About Belief

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.