Richard P. Feynman Quotes

I believe in order that I may understand.

Nobody really knows if there's a God - not Oprah, not Joel Osteen, not the Pope. Nobody has touched or felt or conversed with God. They say they have, but let's get real. I think that is what keeps me from coming out as an atheist. I think to myself, even the atheists don't know that there isn't a God. Nobody knows anything.

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.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

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

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

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.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

I believe that the starting point of faith is some doubt, not bein' so full of yourself and so confident that you are right and that God speaks only to us and doesn't speak to others, that God only cares about us and doesn't care about others.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

Can I believe in that God too?