Dark room Quote by Gregory Benford

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who…

— Anonymous

“I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian... The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about…

— Julian Huxley

“Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.”

— Stephen King

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.”

— Gerhard Ebeling

In the absence of experience, bad theology is formed.

— Bill Johnson

“I thought his memory was like the other memories of the dead that accumulate in every man's life,—a vague impress on the brain of…

— Joseph Conrad

“Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.”

— Herman Bavinck

“They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth, not from…

— Margaret Atwood

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“So there are no nontheologians; there is just good theology and bad theology.”

— William H. Willimon