Science Miracles Quotes

#1. All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

Thomas Paine

#2. I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. This point of scientific method merely shows (what no one to my knowledge ever denied) that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.

C.S. Lewis

#4. An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

Francis Crick

#5. Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

C.S. Lewis

#7. I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.

David Duchovny

#8. I understand that you believe that it works,' said Thrower patiently. 'But everything in the world is either science or miracles. Miracles came from God in the ancient times, but those times are over. Today if we wish to change the world, it isn't magic but science that will give us our tools.

Orson Scott Card

#9. And it is one of the miracles of science and hygiene that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Wendell Berry

#10. Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#11. Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

Terence McKenna

#12. Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.

B. J. Palmer

#13. The less knowledgeable a nation is, the more 'miracles' the nation has.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. Science cannot explain miracles. Neither do miracles explain science.

Jerry Pollock

#15. Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

Terence McKenna

#16. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience as can be imagined.

David Hume

#17. When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.

Michael Shermer

#18. [In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

Jonah Goldberg

#19. But while they continued staring into one another's face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.

Thornton Wilder

#20. All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

Matthew Arnold

#21. Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.

Christiane Northrup

#22. I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

Marcellin Berthelot

#23. Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Augustine Of Hippo

#24. BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.

William Kamkwamba

#25. Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#26. I don't think science is totally true, because I've seen miracles happen through prayer.

Meredith Brooks

#27. Which is the more useful, the scientific world-view, with all its wonderful technical miracles, or the religious world-view, with its sense of purpose and belonging?

Chris Beckett

#28. So tel me, Mr. Science Journalist, do you still doubt the existence of miracles?"

"I just told you. You're my miracle.

Nicholas Sparks

#29. Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.

Christian De Duve

#30. When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

Albert Hofmann

#31. We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even ... Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

Victor J. Stenger

#32. The passion for finding the system in experience, replacing surprise with order, is a persistent part of human nature ... Science came to mean the elimination of surprise. It outlawed miracles, because miracles are above all unexpected.

George Gilder

#33. Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Ray Bradbury

#34. There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be

Billy Joel

#35. Life on Earth is not the result of a series of miracles performed by a supernatural god-creator, and it is definitely not a product of matter having a mind of its own, of an equally miraculous evolutionary process supervised by Lady Natural Selection who would turn rabbits into lions.

Paul Greene

#36. But this was the real world wasn't it? Miracles must happen in some parallel universe.

Clyde DeSouza

#37. Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

Horace Mann

#38. If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.

Robert Stikmanz

#39. The only valid faith today is disbelief.

J.S.B. Morse

#40. Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

Stephen Hawking

#41. A discussion about the miraculous quickly devolves to an argument about whether or not one is willing to consider any possibility whatsoever of the supernatural

Francis S. Collins