Quotes About Belief

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.