James Altucher Quotes

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

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.