Quotes About Belief

Reflecting years later on his spiritual feelings, he said that religion was at its best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. "The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it

Lograbas hacer lo imposible porque no te dabas cuenta de que era imposible.»

He had let it be known that he believed that men and women were not naturally monogamous.

The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

But they both believed that a divine design was reflected in the elegant laws that governed the way the universe worked.

As Diderot once quipped, a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.

The Jew who abandons his faith," he once said, "is in a similar position to a snail that abandons his shell. He is still a snail."68

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation

Una fe insensata en la autoridad es el peor enemigo de la verdad.

El respeto ciego por la autoridad es el mayor enemigo de la verdad.

Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?

En su madurez, Einstein creía más firmemente que había una realidad «objetiva» que existía con independencia de que nosotros pudiésemos observarla o no. La creencia en un mundo externo independiente de la persona que lo observaba —diría repetidamente— era la base de toda ciencia.

There is no real reason—other than either a metaphysical faith or a habit ingrained in the mind—to believe that nature must operate with absolute certainty. It is just as reasonable, though perhaps less satisfying, to believe that some things simply happen by chance. Certainly, there was mounting evidence that on the subatomic level this was the case.

Como Spinoza, Einstein no creía en un Dios personal que interactuaba con el hombre. Pero sí creían ambos que había un diseño divino reflejado en las elegantes leyes que gobernaban el funcionamiento del universo.

What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.

In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.—A 39.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions!!!

The priest knows only one great danger: that is science

Our faith was a flickering flame.

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

The government isn't real, he replied. He might have been talking about Santa Claus or God. I don't owe anything to anyone who in themselves are lies and liars.

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

I couldn't see why it shouldn't be my one hundred dollars.