Quotes About God

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will see the wisdom of God clearly manifested in a minute point.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.

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

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

Science was born, when religion failed to find the God!

Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.