Quotes About Belief

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.