Gary Zukav Quotes

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

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

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down. down. Amen! If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

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.

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

A scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.