God And Science Quotes:

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

- Albert Einstein

topic: God, Religious, Soul, Atheistic, Egoism

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

- Paul Davies

topic: Powerful, Numbers, Design, Evidence Of God, God Is There

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Harmony, Inspirational Science, God Does Exist, Pantheism, Christian Science

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

- Galileo Galilei

source: "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

topic: Believe, Humor, Religion, Obliged, Anti Religious

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

- Robert Jastrow

topic: Men, Views, Circumstances, Theism, Pampered

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

- Albert Einstein

topic: God, Play, Gambling, Ineffable, Creation Of The Universe

A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

- Fred Hoyle

topic: Numbers, Religion, Facts, Theism, Science Religion

As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit?

- George Greenstein

source: George Greenstein (1988). “The symbiotic universe: life and mind in the cosmos”

topic: Agency, Cosmos, Benefits, Evidence Of God, Supreme Being

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

- Theodosius Dobzhansky

topic: Science, Light, Evolution, Biologist, Natural Selection

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the existence of God.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.61, Courier Corporation

topic: Self, Religion, Chance, Science Religion, Existence Of God

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

- Protagoras

topic: Mean, Knowing, Atheism, God And Science, Shortness Of Life

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Humble, Reality, Understanding, Morality And Religion, Ethics And Morals

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.

- Frank J. Tipler

topic: Christian, Dream, Atheist, Theism, Laws Of Physics

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

- Vera Kistiakowsky

source: "Evolution through the Back Door". www.freerepublic.com. June 15, 2003.

topic: Order, Understanding, Atheism, Theism, God And Science

The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan.

- Henry F. Schaefer, III

topic: Goal, Joy, Atheism, Discovering Something, Discovering Something New

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Art, Science, Physical Science, Art And Science

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Spiritual Knowledge, Spiritual Truth

One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.

- George Wald

topic: Believe, Tasks, Generations, Living Organisms, Creation And Evolution

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom, Spacetime, Mathematical Logic

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, God, Split Personality, Mind Thinking

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Funny, Bible, Truth, Inconvenient Truth, Jealousy And Insecurity

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

- Louis Pasteur

source: The Literary Digest, October 18, 1902.

topic: Men, Atheism, Study, Creator God, God And Science

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

- Alexander Pope

topic: Nature, Science, Night, God And Science, Funny Science

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Making A Living, Software Design

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Im Sorry, Atheist, Fear, Science Religion, Morality And Religion

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Motivational, Coexist, Religious Life

For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

topic: Hands, Evaluation, Facts, Faith And Reason, God And Science

Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.

- Edward Robert Harrison

source: Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

topic: Views, Choices, Design, God Provides, Theism

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Change, Humility, Learning, Information Science, Good Science

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.

topic: Atheist, Science, Expression, God Does Exist, Science Religion

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium" by Albert Einstein, www.einsteinandreligion.com. 1941.

topic: Truth, Real, Dark, Regularity, Science Religion

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls

- Max Planck

topic: Religious, Real, Thinking, Complement, Science Religion

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

- Steven Weinberg

source: "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

topic: God, Atheist, People, Anti Religious, Theism

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.

- Antony Flew

source: Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.75, InterVarsity Press

topic: Powerful, Dna, Years, God And Science, Science God

Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Design, Mind, Would Be, God And Science, Science God

When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.

- Tony Rothman

topic: Order, Wish, Atheism, Science Religion, God And Science

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.

- Alexander Markovich Polyakov

topic: Atheism, Chance, Mathematics, God And Science

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Death, Science, Atheism, God Is Dead, Lanterns

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Religious, Science, Law, Laws Of Physics, God And Science

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious, Subtle Atheist, God And Science

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Death, Religious, Atheist, Knowledge And Understanding, Spinoza

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

- Carl Sagan

topic: Death, Faith, Atheist, Science Religion, Belief In God

Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Humble, Men, Theism, Science Religion

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Existence, Boldness, Evidence Of God, Theism, World Religions

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

- Albert Einstein

topic: God, Religious, Lying, Called By God, Theism

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

- Isaac Newton

topic: Beautiful, God, Powerful, Intelligent Design, Wise Counsel