“I want to believe that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, there is reason to hope.”
“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.”
“[Change is] the only evidence of life.”
“I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”