Faith Quotes

Belief in something greater, whether divine, human, or simply possible.

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"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
Dirac, Paul
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"All religions are equal in their lack of evidence for their fundamental claims."
Dirac, Paul
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"I believe that the universe is fundamentally rational and comprehensible."
Dirac, Paul
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"I'm an atheist, but I'm very sorry – I wish I believed in whatever it is that makes you believe, because the fight would be less terrible."
Feynman, Richard
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Einstein, Albert
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"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
Einstein, Albert
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"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of all being."
Einstein, Albert
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"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"Faith and knowledge are not opposites but complements."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"I believe that this universe has a creator."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Religion and natural science will never have to conflict, because they work in different domains."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"God does not play dice with the universe."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Belief in a personal God is a matter of conviction, not of argument."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"God is subtle, but he is not malicious."
Wigner, Eugene
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"God is subtle, but he is not malicious."
Bohr, Niels
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"Religion is a matter for the individual conscience, but it must not be allowed to dictate to science."
Dirac, Paul
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"True religion is real feeling and real conduct; it cannot be changed by a definition."
Einstein, Albert
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"God does not play dice with the universe."
Einstein, Albert
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"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power revealed in the knowable world is my idea of God."
Einstein, Albert
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"God is a mathematician of a very high order; in fact, I would say that He is a mathematician."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The mathematics of nature reveals divine intelligence."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the universe."
Wigner, Eugene
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"An honest God's the noblest work of man."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Science and religion will never be in conflict because they are concerned with different things."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The idea that God created the world is, of course, a hallmark of religious thinking."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"The romantic faith in the power of science can be compared with ancient religious faith."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"I would not call it the language of God, but rather the thoughts of the universe."
Bohr, Niels
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"Faith in mathematical beauty sustains long research endeavors."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"Faith in reason is the mathematician's creed."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan