Quotes About Faith

To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

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.

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

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

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

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

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.

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.