Alan Lightman Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

  Alan Lightman

  Religious, Views, Different

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.30, Vintage

• I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

  Alan Lightman

  May, Matter, Determined

• For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves. All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.

  Alan Lightman

  Spiritual, Appreciation, Atheist

• As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.

  Alan Lightman

  Knowing, Law, Long

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.37, Vintage

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