Mehmet Murat İldan Quotes

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.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward truth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

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

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.