Lisa Randall Quotes

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

My faith guides my life.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.