Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE

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.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

I believe in things that have proof.

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

I do not believe in Belief.

To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

Unbelief is a belief.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.