The best thing about science is that hard empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

I'm a scientist not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not but not the contrary of what they see it is above not against them.

In other words a person who is fanatic in matters of religion and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Faith is a living daring confidence in God's grace so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Nothing succeeds they say like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

But because we've all been readers we know what the experience is like and we hope that what certain writers have given to us we will give to someone.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time you want to be truthful to the predecessors because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing and finding out they were another.

We certainly want those at the top to do well but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.