God Hypothesis Quotes

#1. Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on.

Richard Dawkins

#2. Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.

Julian Huxley

#3. The God hypothesis, for example, allows you to have an unparallelled understanding of absolutely everything while knowing absolutely nothing.

Arkady Strugatsky

#4. The Bible is not a tested hypothesis, it is not a theory but it is God's Breath.

Moroaswi Tumiso Victor

#5. The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

Richard Dawkins

#6. In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.

Gottfried Leibniz

#7. Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#8. Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#9. I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#10. Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.

Charles Lyell

#11. Light was the first thing that came into existence, first in the order of creation.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

Roh Moo-hyun

#13. Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.

Rajneesh

#14. There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#15. Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.

Sean M. Carroll

#16. Death is a solemn thing, and never so much so as when we see it close at hand. The grave is a chilling, heart-sickening place, and it is vain to pretend it has no terrors.

J.C. Ryle

#17. Be what you are, all that you are. Wear yourself proudly. It will require that you draw a line, but that line in the sand is your courage.

Christy Hall

#18. On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

William James

#19. Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Pierre Laplace

#20. Care more than others think wise.

Howard Schultz

#21. For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis; it can be discarded easily into the dustbin. It is not needed.

Rajneesh

#22. I really just wanted to work on adventure games, so Pinkerton Road is our own little indie studio that's focused on that.

Jane Jensen

#23. I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

#24. The more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator God, who designed the universe for a purpose, gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.

John C. Lennox

#25. God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#26. To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#27. a flash of silver just below the surface.

Paul Kemprecos

#28. Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that.

Richard Dawkins

#29. Happiness is a delightful heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

John W. Gardner

#31. For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

Gary Sloan

#32. Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#33. Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

William Hazlitt

#34. God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Percy Bysshe Shelley