William Mapother Quotes

At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try to understand the nature of our universe in these two modes of thinking, I see many commonalities and crossovers between science and religion. It seems logical that in the long run the two will even converge.

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that the universe started by God starting it,' that's fine by me.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

I'd had a strict religious education.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

I don't know what I believe. I think there's a belief system, I'm just not sure what it is.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

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

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.