“Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God”
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American theoretical physicist 1933Related quotes
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Context: We rebel against the impossible. I sense a wish in some professional religion-mongers to make God possible, to make him comprehensible to the naked intellect, domesticate him so that he's easy to believe in. Every century the Church makes a fresh attempt to make Christianity acceptable. But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol.
The Twilight Zone, "The Fugitive" (1962).
The Twilight Zone
Variant: Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.
Context: It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.
“And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“I believe that God makes it available to anyone who wants it.”
I believe he wants to give it to you and your ministry.
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
“When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it will be a great place.”
Interview on CBS, 03 October 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNv_a1CbX30, Philip Roth on Fame, Sex, and God http://www.cbsnews.com/news/philip-roth-on-fame-sex-and-god/ (3 October 2010)