Quotes About Belief

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.