Gary Zukav Quotes

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.