Ernst Mayr Quotes

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

I eventually got to the point where I was like, 'Well, if I can't believe in the Big Bang Theory and be a good Christian, then maybe I'm not a good Christian.'

I am religious in my thinking.

My faith is with me always.

I believe in God, but I am not religious.

In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

Every one starts out being an atheist.