Faith Quotes

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

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"Mathematics is a conversation between the mathematician and the eternal."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"Every axiom is an assertion of faith in the human capacity to know."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"The pursuit of mathematical truth is a form of spiritual discipline."
Hilbert, David
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"Every axiom is a leap of faith that opens new worlds of knowledge."
Hilbert, David
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"In my opinion, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success."
Weyl, Hermann
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"I would like to contribute to the establishment of the fact that a spiritual worldview is compatible with natural science."
Weyl, Hermann
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"We are always ready to take something on faith, when we have exhausted all other possibilities."
Church, Alonzo
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"Faith is the courage to believe without proof, but not without reason."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind and within the passing flux of immediate things."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Faith is not belief without evidence, but trust in what transcends evidence."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future: God is love, and therefore understandable by reason. God is simple, therefore God is understandable by reason."
Turing, Alan
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"To understand mathematics is to participate in the divine."
Hilbert, David
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"Numbers are the voice of creation speaking to the human mind."
Hilbert, David
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"Mathematics is the arena where the mind meets the eternal."
Hilbert, David
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"Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the universe."
Hilbert, David
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"To pursue mathematics is to join humanity's eternal conversation with the infinite."
Hilbert, David
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"To create mathematics is to touch the face of eternity."
Hilbert, David
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"Faith is not belief without evidence; it is trust beyond certainty."
Church, Alonzo
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"Faith is the confidence in what we cannot yet prove."
Church, Alonzo
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"Religious symbolism is the only language in which certain ideas can be adequately expressed."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"The absolute distinction between science and religion is that science is a search for physical causes, while religion is a search for such causes as involve purpose."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Faith is a choice, not a certainty."
Dummett, Michael
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"Faith without doubt is not faith; it is certainty."
Dummett, Michael
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"Faith is trust in the face of uncertainty."
Dummett, Michael
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"Faith is the assurance of things unseen."
Dummett, Michael
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"I believe in God, based on what is called the cosmological argument."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."
Turing, Alan
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"I am not very impressed by theological arguments whatever they may be; I find that they usually involve statements which make no sense to me."
Turing, Alan
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"Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within the passing flux of immediate things."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"The greatest religious experiences are not dogmatic but experiential."
Whitehead, Alfred North