Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry…

The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising…

— Andrew Dickson White

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But…

— Rupert Sheldrake

The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

— Frans de Waal

Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon,…

— Robert Anthony

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside.…

— Timothy Keller

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of…

— Robert Anton Wilson

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to…

— Winona Ryder

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are…

— Stephen Batchelor

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily.…

— Tana French

Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

— Jeff Tweedy

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to…

— R. Scott Bakker

Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive…

— Ravi Zacharias