Quotes About Belief

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that's where belief lies and art as well.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

I don't believe in mathematics.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

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

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.