Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow Quotes

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

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

I think science and religion should be separate.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

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 think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to peoples' lives. Science is more about the mechanics of the universe around us and the way in which it works. And I don't think those things have to be mutually exclusive.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

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

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science can go. The rest, you know, are just fine with science. And it has been that way ever since the beginning.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'