Thomas Hobbes Quotes

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

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.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, 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.

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

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

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.

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realization.

There is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

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.

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

My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.