Paul Davies Quotes

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.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

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

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Philosophy was once considered science.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

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

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

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

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.

I believe in God, absolutely.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Universe, made the existence of spirit and God an extraneous hypothesis that offered no explanatory principles needed by science.

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

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