Quotes About Faith

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

The point of any religion should be this: how to open your heart to love.

One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.