Top 35 God Of The Gaps Quotes
#1. In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.
Nevill Francis Mott
#2. Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#3. My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.
Brian Greene
#4. Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.
Guy Consolmagno
#5. Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Marguerite Duras
#6. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach
#7. I am the Devil and I'm here to do the Devil's business.
Tex Watson
#8. When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturday Evening Post.' In the middle of this family magazine on my parent's coffee table was an article about this family that was camping, and they were all mauled by a grizzly bear in their sleeping bags.
Robert Englund
#9. I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.
George MacDonald
#10. You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
Alfred North Whitehead
#11. [When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]
Oh, no. Absolutely not ... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
James D. Watson
#12. 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
#13. What if we all started measuring our success as mothers based on our areas of innate strength instead of weakness and trusted God enough to fill in the gaps?
Stacey Thacker
#14. Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
James S. Coleman
#15. Sacrificing everything that you care about in order to make another person happy is not love. It's not really that some people are gardeners and some people are flowers, Arden. It's that we both must be both, each in our own time.
Leila Sales
#16. Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.
Anthony Marra
#17. the village would never accept it. It has a policy of never accepting anything. As a happy consequence, it changes about as fast as the rules of chess.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#19. After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said in a letter to Voltaire}
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#20. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.
Julian Huxley
#21. Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#22. To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.
[Diary entry, 1971]
Fritz Zwicky
#24. The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
George Carlin
#25. Gaps, by default in the mind of the creationist, are filled by God.
Richard Dawkins
#27. If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?
Richard Dawkins
#28. It's okay for you to have relationships, but it's not okay to talk about them. It's not okay to be out or to be public about it. It's not okay to be photographed with your partner.
Margaret Cho
#29. I still believe in God; the teachings of Jesus even, but the rest of Christianity ... its Bible, its churches, its dogma
only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of being HUMAN, and it ignores all these GAPS that need to be filled in by the individual.
Craig Thompson
#30. In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner
#31. The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
Jorge Luis Borges
#32. I can state, you are my enemy but will you do enmity better than me?
Kamini Arichandran
#33. Don't worry. I know the truth."
"The truth about what?"
Cam stepped back. "You want to say yes, but you're just not ready."
My jaw dropped.
"It's okay." His grin turned cocky. "I'm a lot to handle, but I can assure you, you'll have fun handling me.
J. Lynn
#34. People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
Hippocrates
