As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation America's unifying force has never been a specific faith but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

Society lives by faith and develops by science.

I wasn't with Joseph but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

There's been some research in cognitive science I'm told that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are as Pascal puts it so made that they cannot believe. To us when people talk about faith it's white noise.

I've lost my faith in science.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification not by faith but by verification.

By any reasonable measure of achievement the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Blind faith no matter how passionately expressed will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.