Kamal Haasan Quotes

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

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

My colleagues have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it, however it may jar against their inclinations.

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.

I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. ... Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

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

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

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.