Alan Lightman Quotes

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

What are the chances there is a God, really?

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

I definitely believe in God.

I know God is real.

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.'

What is the origin of God?

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

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

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

Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

God is not a dead equation!

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.