Arthur Leonard Schawlow Quotes

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

If you don't have God in your life, you are nothing.

The universe does not make sense without God.

[Star Wars is] designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, 'Here's the answer.' It's to say, 'Think about this for a second. Is there a God? What does God look like? What does God sound like? What does God feel like? How do we relate to God?'

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.

People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.

I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I am definitely inclined toward asking the big questions.

I think about love being so important because, to me, that's the reason we were put on Earth. Love, in a sense, is God to me.