“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright
1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922)
“Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.”
Lecture V: Morals
A Course of Popular Lectures (1829)
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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 14 "Types of Men" - 3 : The Believer
Source: Prejudices: Third Series
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) United States federal judge
Law and its Administration http://books.google.com/books?id=_VUf45FZR7cC&pg=PA3&dq=%22Law+as+it+exists+in+the+modern+community%22&hl=en&ei=uCLsTKahLYSs8AbQ5dWIAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Law%20as%20it%20exists%20in%20the%20modern%20community%22&f=false (1915), p. 3.
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
“There is no fixed, eternal frame to the universe to define what may or may not exist.”
Lee Smolin book Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)
“Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 203
