Christopher Hitchens Quotes

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

What evidence do you have that you know Jesus?

God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it.

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.