Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

I always had a background belief in God. In other words, instinctually I've never doubted that we are not alone.

I think God does a lot of things in different ways.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

The will of the world is never the will of God.

I know God is real.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

What are the chances there is a God, really?

Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

I definitely believe in God.

God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.