“Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.”

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”

“The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.”

“Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”

“Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.”

“What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We're encouraged to ask whether the evidence actually supports what we're being told - or what we grew up believing - and we're allowed to ask whether we're hearing all the evidence or just some small prejudicial part of it. If our beliefs aren't supported by the evidence, then we're encouraged to alter our beliefs.”