Quotes About Belief

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

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

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.