Quotes About Belief

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.