Niels Bohr Quotes

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

I definitely believe in God.

God does not play dice.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

I know God is real.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

What is the origin of God?

What are the chances there is a God, really?

I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.

God is bigger than people think.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.