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Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord. -- Khalil Gibran
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive. -- Rudolf Virchow
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another. -- Rudolf Virchow
If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events. -- Richard Dawkins
I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position. -- Richard Dawkins
People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age of the universe, to pigeonhole climate change as yet another variant on the same theme. -- Katharine Hayhoe
Society lives by faith, and develops by science. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason. -- Deepak Chopra
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over. -- Barry Commoner
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction. -- Connie Willis
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare. -- Herbert A. Simon
I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place. -- Seth Berkley
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably. -- Leonard Susskind
I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it. -- Thomas S. Monson
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. -- Vannevar Bush
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. -- Anton Chekhov
I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith. -- Craig Brewer
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. -- John Clayton
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. -- Rupert Sheldrake
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science. -- Martin Rees
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines. -- Alex Berenson
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power. -- Imre Lakatos
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. -- Tryon Edwards
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension. -- Richard Dooling
I've lost my faith in science. -- Bette Davis
Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish. -- Aleister Crowley
Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith. -- George Coyne
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. -- James Anthony Froude
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -- Jerry A. Coyne
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. -- Richard P. Feynman
Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith. -- Serj Tankian
Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science. -- Loyd Auerbach
I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me. -- Pat Summitt
The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith. -- Jon Stewart
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. -- Robert K. Merton
Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief. -- Joseph Silk
Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith. -- Jane Goodall
Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything. -- Patricia Briggs
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. -- E. O. Wilson
Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science. -- Harry Gordon Johnson
"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. -- Thomas Huxley
Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something. -- Gene Wolfe
Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith. -- Norbert Wiener
THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. -- Ambrose Bierce
Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them. -- Charles H. Townes
I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. -- Marco Rubio
To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith. -- Michael Shermer
I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist. -- George W. Bush
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. -- Tim Minchin
I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science. -- William Daniel Phillips
The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science. -- Michael Shermer
...this is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith... -- Nirmala Srivastava
Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works. -- Brian Cox
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. -- Alfred North Whitehead
A mystical path requires courage as you must take a first step of faith so that the second may be of science. ? -- Luis Marques
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. -- E. O. Wilson
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion. -- Asa Gray
But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore. -- Robert Sheckley
In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand. -- Ellen G. White
In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith. -- Nicholas of Cusa
If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion. -- Michael Pitt
Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH. -- Vikrmn
Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history. -- Jacques Barzun
Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in? -- David Alan Harvey
neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power -- John Money
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do. -- Richard Dawkins

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