Quotes About Beliefs

It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that.

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

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."

He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe.

Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts.

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.

In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our [european] values, our laws and our constitution are full members of our society.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

Once I stood in line behind a young woman ordering coffee who remarked to her friend that she didn't yet have a set of beliefs, and I imagined catalogs from which one could order such sets, like furniture, beliefs that wouldn't collapse under one's full weight, big sturdy reliable sideboards of belief. As for me, I have learned what I can do and what I can't. I know my limits. That's all I have to go on, but it's better than nothing.