Quotes About Faith

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.