Charles Darwin Quotes

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

God does not play dice.

I don't even pay attention to the odds, to be honest with you.

As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.

There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.

Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

Can I believe in that God too?

I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I'm not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things.

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.

People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

God doesn't ask you to figure it all out. He only asks you to believe.

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.

I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible. They're not to be ruled out.

Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.

A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do not speak. We are left to believe. Fools, children. Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.