Science God Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.

- Wernher von Braun

source: Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

topic: Religion, Doe, Scientist, Theism, Existence Of God

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

- Albert Einstein

topic: God, Science, Details, God Does Exist, Science Religion

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

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

- Arthur Leonard Schawlow

topic: Religious, Atheism, Needs, Theism, Science God

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

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Suicide, Religion, Spirituality, Dishonor, Science God

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

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Solved Problems, Mystery Of God

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

- Fred Hoyle

source: "The Universe: Past and Present Reflections". "Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics", volume 20, p. 16, September 1982.

topic: Science, If There Is A God, Common Sense, Evidence Of God, Apologetic

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

- Albert Einstein

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

I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.

- Allan Sandage

source: "Sizing up the Cosmos: An Astronomer's Quest" by John Noble Wilford, www.nytimes.com. March 12, 1991.

topic: Order, Miracle, Atheism, Theism, God Is There

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Quest: An Autobiography". Book by Leopold Infeld (p. 279), 1980.

topic: Motivational, God, Math, Space Time, Mathematical Logic

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

- Guy Kawasaki

topic: Science, Needs, Science God

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

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Mind Heart, Mind Opening

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

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Leadership, Lack Of Common Sense, Quantum Mechanics

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

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

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

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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

- Robert Jastrow

source: God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)

topic: Dream, Ignorance, Science, God Is There, Faith And Reason

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Life, Motivational, Spiritual, Religious Life, Spiritual Evolution

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Faith, Atheist, True Friend, Religious Faith, Morality And Religion

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

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

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

- Mark Twain

source: "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

topic: God, Christian, Army, Science Religion, Morality And Religion

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