Dan Barker Quotes

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

I believe in things that have proof.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

My colleagues have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it, however it may jar against their inclinations.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

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.

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

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.